The Endless Steppe

Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. The garden (Chapter 1)

2. The Russian army (Chapter 1)

3. Electrical engineer (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. It is the oldest Jewish center in Eastern Europe. (Chapter 2)

2. Through an act of will—not suicide—she dies in her own home rather than allow them to take her. (Chapter 2)

Chapters 4-6

Reading Check

1. Weed the potato fields (Chapter 4)

2. Haggle (Chapter 5)

3. The bakery (Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. Gypsum is used to make plaster casts for wounded soldiers. (Chapter 4)

2. Anya transforms vanity into an act of courage by using the luxury items she brought from home to make herself beautiful before going off to her job of drudgery at the flour mill. (Chapter 6)

Chapters 7-10

Reading Check

1. Space (Chapter 7)

2. Goose fat (Chapter 8)

3. Sunflower seeds (Chapter 10)

Short Answer

1. She uses old newspapers for a notebook, writing between the printed lines. (Chapter 7)

2. He and nine other Jewish men gather in the family's hut to sing Kaddish after news comes of his father's death.