114 pages 3 hours read

Jerry Spinelli

Milkweed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

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Chapters 1-9

Reading Check

1. “Running” (Chapter 1)

2. “A Jew is an animal. A Jew is a bug. A Jew is less than a bug.” (Chapter 3)

3. “Take only what you need.” (Chapter 4)

4. He “had not known bread could be given.” (Chapter 6)

5. Doctor Korczak, for the orphans (Chapter 9)

Short Answer

1. Uri says he is lucky that it is his himself, and not the “Jackboots,” who caught him stealing bread. (Chapter 2)

2. Stopthief and Uri jump on a streetcar and the other passengers tell them to get off. As a nearby explosion stops the streetcar and everyone gets off, Uri takes the opportunity to drive the streetcar out of the city and off the tracks. (Chapter 4)

3. Stopthief and Uri see Jackboot soldiers forcing an old man to clean the sidewalk with his beard, while another man has his hair cut off by the soldiers. At first, Stopthief does not understand who the people are, and offers them the chance to come to the barber shop. Later, he realizes they were Jews.