Night
Holocaust History
Vocabulary
Writing
Grammar
100
Tzipora
What is Elie's younger sister's name?
100
6 million
How many Jewish Holocaust victims were there?
100
free from error
What is infallible?
100
This is the last sentence in the introduction paragraph.
What is a thesis?
100
This piece of punctuation separates two independent clauses, but the second independent clause is not capitalized.
What is a semicolon?
200
He tries to warn the people of Sighet about the Nazis that are coming.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
200
5 million
How many non-Jewish Holocaust victims were there?
200
to stray from the norm
What is deviate?
200
This sentence previews what the body paragraph is about.
What is a topic sentence?
200
This grammatical error is when two sentences are incorrectly joined together.
What is a run-on sentence?
300
She helps Elie after Idek beats him and runs into him many years later in Paris.
Who is the French girl?
300
This ancient symbol was originally used a sign of peace in many religions, but the Nazis used it as a sign of Aryan purity.
What is the swastika?
300
to severely criticize
What is chastise?
300
This is the proof that backs up the writer's argument.
What is the example?
300
This incorrectly formed sentence is either missing a subject or a verb.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
These people were liberated a few days after the camp was evacuated. Elie and his father could have stayed back with them.
Who are the people in the infirmary?
400
Political opponents, such as Communists, homosexuals, Gypsies, mentally or physically disabled.
Who else was targeted aside from the Jews?
400
sincere, real
What is unfeigned?
400
This first sentence of the conclusion paragraph restates the thesis.
What is the summary statement?
400
These two components must agree for a sentence to be coherent.
What is subject-verb agreement?
500
He loses his son somewhere in the march.
Who is Rabbi Eliahou?
500
U.S. intelligence was afraid of killing innocent people in efforts to destroy something horrendous.
Why didn't the U.S. bomb Auschwitz?
500
the Jewish prayer for the dead
What is Kaddish?
500
This goes against the writer's main point in order to offer another viewpoint and then disprove it.
What is the counter argument?
500
Ms. Wiedner's favorite piece of punctuation
What is a semicolon?
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