Part 1, Chapters 1-11

Reading Check

1. A five-month-old baby (Chapter 4)

2. Akiva (Chapter 3)

3. Esther Karolinski (Chapter 7)

Short Answer

1. Chaya is separated from her family upon their relocation to Podgorze Ghetto, as her name appears on a list of Jews who are ordered to evacuate the city. (Chapter 2)

2.  Chaya’s work as a courier involves smuggling supplies into the ghettos and sometimes smuggling people out. (Chapters 1, 3, and 4)

Part 2, Chapters 12-20

Reading Check

1. Attempt to start a new resistance group in Lodz (Chapter 12)

2. A young mother (Chapter 13)

3.  A person who builds his career on blackmailing Jews caught outside the ghettos (Chapter 15)

Short Answer

1. The women are starving and attack Esther to try to get their hands on the potatoes in her bag. (Chapter 16)

2. They refuse to fight the Nazis in accordance with their belief in God’s law prohibiting murder. (Chapter 17)

Part 2, Chapters 21-30

Reading Check

1. Inside an abandoned German tank (Chapter 23)

2. Because she tells them that she has typhus (Chapter 26)

3.