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Nathan Englander, Free Fruit For Young Widows

Nathan Englander, Free Fruit for Young Widows

Read Free Fruit for Young Widows and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What happens while a platoon of soldiers is having lunch one day?

One of the soldiers attacks another.

One soldier shoots four others in the head.

The men discuss their plan of action for later that evening.

Their leader informs them of an unexpected ambush.

2. Why does Shimmy attack Tendler?

because the men “were dead people who had not had to die”

because his “grief and temper got the best of him”

because he “hated Tendler with the passion of a thousand suns”

because he was an “Egyptian-lover”

3. Why does the Christian family plot to kill Tendler after the war?

They find his delusions frightening.

They don’t want him to reclaim the house.

They don’t trust him.

They are prejudiced.

4. How does Tendler respond to overhearing the family’s plot to murder him?

He confronts them and kicks them out of the house.

He is shocked and runs for his life.

He shoots the entire family, including the infant daughter.

He cries.

5. What horror did Tendler experience during the war?

He escaped a concentration camp and lived alone in the woods for two years, eating nothing but berries and squirrels.

His parents sold him to another family in exchange for passage out of Germany.

His parents fled the country, leaving him alone and hungry.

He was in a concentration camp, where his family was killed in front of him, and he survived by hiding in a pile of dead bodies.