milkweed
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Section 1: Chapters 1-11
- How do Misha (Stopthief) and Uri first meet?
pg. 2-3
- Why does Uri tell Misha he is lucky?
pg. 2
- Where does Uri take Misha to?
pg. 4
- According to one of the boys, what is the difference between Gypsies and Jews?
pg. 8
- Where does Uri live?
pg. 9
- Why are all the people outside carrying shovels?
pg. 12
- What lesson does Uri teach Misha by observing Kuba?
pg. 13
- Why does Misha think everyone is running?
pg. 17-18
- Why isn’t Misha allowed to snatch anything on the pickle run with Uri?
pg. 25-26
- What does Uri do that makes Misha feel like he was born in a way?
pg. 29-30
- How does Misha try and make up for stealing Janina’s birthday cake?
pg. 41-42
- What does Misha begin to do after he sees Uri taking bread to the orphans?
pg. 41-42
- What happens to Misha when he goes to Janina’s at night?
pg. 44
- Why are all the trees being chopped down?
pg. 52-53
Section 2: Chapters 12-22
- Why does Misha knock on Janina’s door?
pg. 56
- What strict instructions does Uri give Misha about walking out on the streets?
pg. 58
- What catches Misha’s attention when he and Uri are walking to the orphan’s home?
pg. 60
- How is the blue-and-white parade different from the grand parade of the Jackboots?
pg. 69
- Why won’t anyone in the blue-and white parade speak to Misha?
pg. 72
- Why does Misha think the ghetto must be a wonderful place?
pg. 74
- Why are there suddenly many more boys living in the stable with Uri and Misha?
pg. 79
- Why doesn’t Janina wear her blue-and-white armband when she goes out to play?
pg. 82
- How does Misha think the newspapers get placed on the dead bodies?
pg. 86
- Why don’t the food vendors ever run out of squirrel meat to sell?
pg. 90
- When everyone in the ghetto is marched outside, what does Misha decide to accept as a challenge?
pg. 96
- What does Uri force Big Henryk to do?
pg. 100-101
- Why does Misha keep the yellow stone his father had given him?
pg. 104-105
- After Mr. Milgrom tells Janina and Misha that they are both good children, what does Janina want him to tell her?
pg. 107-109
Section 3: Chapters 23-33
- Why does Misha run alongside the parade of cars driving through the ghetto?
pg. 110
- How does Misha think he will be able to recognize Himmler?
pg. 111
- Why is everyone afraid of Buffo the Flop?
pg. 112
- How does Misha escape from Buffo?
pg. 114
- Why does Misha think Buffo must have hated him most of all?
pg. 114
- Why does Uncle Shepsel want to become a Lutheran?
pg. 116
- Why does Misha decide to believe that there is a cow in the ghetto?
pg. 116
- When does Misha begin to lose respect for Jackboots?
pg. 117
- What moment does Misha look forward to every night?
pg. 121
- What does Misha do with the food he smuggles in every night?
pg. 126
- According to Misha, what makes him the perfect smuggler?
pg. 132
- Why does it get harder for Misha to sneak out at night?
pg. 139-140
- Why are Misha and Janina thrilled to find the milkweed plant?
pg. 142-143
- What does Enos think is so funny?
pg. 152-153
Section 4: Chapters 34-45
- Why is Misha allowed to participate in the Hanukkah celebration this year?
pg. 157
- What gifts do Misha and Janina receive from Mr. Milgrom?
pg. 159
- Why does Misha have to be the menorah on the second day of Hanukkah?
pg. 160
- When Misha goes to find a pickled egg for Janina, what does he forget to do while on the other side?
pg. 162-163
- What warning does Uri give Misha?
pg. 168
- After the trains start to come, what does Mr. Milgrom ask Misha to do?
pg. 176
- Why doesn’t Mr. Milgrom forbid Janina to go out to the other side?
pg. 179-180
- Why aren’t Misha and Janina able to get back to the ghetto one night?
pg. 182
- After being caught by the Jackboots and shot by Uri, what does Misha find in the dirt when he awakes?
pg. 187
- What happens to the mouse Misha befriends in the farmer’s barn?
pg. 193
- How does Misha escape from the farm he has lived on for three years?
pg. 194
- Why does Misha have a difficult time finding a good sales job in America?
pg. 200
- Why does Misha’s wife, Vivian, leave him?
pg. 202
- Why does Misha sometimes hope that Wendy Janina will cry when she hurts herself?
pg. 207