Characters
This character a violin player who is dies in the pile of bodies outside Gliewitz camp.
JULIEK
Buchenwald
When Elie interrupts the narrative of the train ride to tell of a time, years later, when he saw a woman throwing coins to children, he is using this literary technique...
With reference to God, Elie views his refusal to fast on Yom Kippur as a _____________
Rebellion or protest
CHICAGO
His inheritance
Elie's father dies
“All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. This must be how one stands for the Last Judgement” is an example of...
ALLUSION
DIE
The last word(s) of Shlomo Wiesel
"Eliezer"
The hanging of the young pipel takes place in this location
Appelplatz/courtyard at Buna
“Men were hurtling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at, and mauling each other. Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes” is an example of...
METAPHOR
This pivotal event had a major impact on Elie's perspective, causing him to suggest that God was "dead" or "dying"
The hanging of the young boy in Buna
The location of this year's Winter Olympics
Milan (Milano Cortina)
The rabbi who is abandoned by his son on the death march
Rabbi Eliahu
The name of the camp where Elie, Juliek, and others are trapped in a mass of bodies.
GLEIWITZ
Prisoners reciting Kaddish (the prayer of the dead) for themselves is an example of...
SITUATIONAL IRONY
Prisoners go from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald by this method...
roofless cattle cars
Name any one of the two US Senators from Massachusetts
Elizabeth Warren
Ed Markey
This character gives up and allows himself to be taken in the selection once he feels doubts about his faith
AKIBA DRUMER
The time frame (in years) covered in the memoir.
1941-1945
"Next to him lay his violin, an eerily poignant little corpse" is an example of...
PERSONIFICATION
Why does Elie refer to himself and other prisoners as "masters of nature"?
Because they have lived through the horrible conditions on the death march
This country is said to have to most beaches in the world, with over 16,000 miles of coast. It is bordered by the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
AUSTRALIA