Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
1. IWB were some of the characters referred to as “Jackboots”?
Milkweed, p. 2
2. IWB was one of the main character’s names “Stopthief”?
Milkweed, p. 3
3. IWB was the main character called a Jew and then a Gypsy?
Milkweed, pp. 7, 8
4. IWB did the main character have his first bath and haircut in his memory?
Milkweed, pp. 10, 11
5. IWB did two characters take, drive, and wreck a streetcar after a bomb exploded in
front of the streetcar?
Milkweed, pp. 14, 15
6. IWB did the main character see a man using his own long beard to scrub a sidewalk
while soldiers watched?
Milkweed, p. 21
7. IWB was the main character’s favorite candy “buttercream with a hazelnut inside”?
Milkweed, p. 23
8. IWB did one of the characters like only fresh pickles and would stick his nose up at
the rest?
Milkweed, p. 25
9. IWB was the main character’s favorite horse named Greta?
Milkweed, p. 30
10. IWB was the setting of the story in Warsaw, Poland?
Milkweed, p. 31
11. IWB did the main character steal a birthday cake because “they were going to burn
down the cake”?
Milkweed, p. 35
12. IWB did the main character watch as a storeowner was stripped of his clothes and
then was painted white and yellow to match his store?
Milkweed, p. 36
13. IWB was the main character’s earlobe shot off?
Milkweed, p. 44
14. IWB was the main character put on a leash because he would sneak out at night?
Milkweed, p. 45
15. IWB did the main character learn about angels?
Milkweed, p. 47
16. IWB was the statement, “When the bread started to go, so did the trees”?
Milkweed, p. 52
17. IWB was a sack of coal referred to as “black pearls”?
Milkweed, p. 52
18. IWB, when the main character was told not to look guilty, he “practiced looking
not guilty” in “a scrap of mirror”?
Milkweed, p. 58
19. IWB was the main character “hit by an automobile”?
Milkweed, p. 59
20. IWB was the main character told “someday I’m going to have to kill you to keep you
alive”?
Milkweed, p. 59
21. IWB did the main character see a merry-go-round for the first time?
Milkweed, p. 60
22. IWB was the main character thrown off the merry-go-round into the snow because he
did not have a ticket?
Milkweed, p. 62
23. IWB was a man punished for a crime he did not commit?
Milkweed, pp. 66, 67
24. IWB were Jews having “to wear white armbands with blue stars”?
Milkweed, p. 69
25. IWB was the ghetto referred to as the place “where the damned live”?
Milkweed, p. 70
26. IWB were people afraid of the main character because he was not a Jew?
Milkweed, p. 72
27. IWB did the main character know “the ghetto must be a wonderful place”?
Milkweed, p. 74
28. IWB was a wall built around the ghetto?
Milkweed, p. 75
29. IWB did the main character “come to love [his] small size…speed…slipperiness”?
Milkweed, p. 77
30. IWB were “only people with work permits allowed through the gates in the wall”?
Milkweed, p. 81
31. IWB did the main character see a boy lying in the street and covered with a
newspaper?
Milkweed, p. 85
32. IWB was the ghetto police referred to as the Flops?
Milkweed, p. 88
33. IWB did some of the characters resort to eating rats?
Milkweed, pp. 90-92
34. IWB did the main character think “if he wants her to get up…why is he kicking and
clubbing her” when a woman near the main character “fell to the ground”?
Milkweed, pp. 96, 97
35. IWB was Hitler referred to as the “boss of all the Jackboots”?
Milkweed, p. 106
36. IWB were Jewish children killed by being smothered in a Flop’s belly?
Milkweed, p. 113
37. IWB was the main character told to “find the cow”?
Milkweed, p. 115
38. IWB did the characters get rid of lice by being held upside down and spanked?
Milkweed, pp. 127, 128
39. IWB did crows around a body signal that he was dead?
Milkweed, pp. 131, 132
40. IWB did the main character say “everybody has an angle hiding inside”?
Milkweed, p. 136
41. IWB were flamethrowers used to find people?
Milkweed, p. 137
42. IWB did the main character think “the brilliant orange flame” of the flamethrowers
gorgeous?
Milkweed, p. 137
43. IWB did “the children grow down instead of up”?
Milkweed, p. 153
44. IWB did “the man with the silver pipe” try to get children to “come to the candy
mountain”?
Milkweed, p. 153
45. IWB was there “an unexpected holiday” of “cabbage…sausages and potatoes”?
Milkweed, p. 154
46. IWB was there a burning cow?
Milkweed, p. 156
47. IWB was Hanukkah celebrated?
Milkweed, p. 157
48. IWB were the people going to be deported by trains?
Milkweed, pp. 168, 169
49. IWB did the father tell his daughter and the main character not to come back
to their apartment?
Milkweed, pp. 168, 169
49. IWB did the father tell his daughter and the main character not to come back
to their apartment?
Milkweed, pp. 180, 181
50. IWB did the main character’s name change to Jack when he went to America?
Milkweed, p. 200
51. IWB was the main character’s wife named Vivian?
Milkweed, p. 202
52. IWB did the main character have a daughter named Katherine?
Milkweed, p. 205
53. IWB did the main character have a granddaughter named Wendy Janina?
Milkweed, p. 206
54. IWB was the main character called “Poppynoodle”?
Milkweed, p. 208