Characters
Events
Events
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
100
The author of this memoir
Who is Elie Wiesel?
100
Elie is separated from them forever the first night he is at a concentration camp.
Who are his mother and Tzipora?
100
Keeps Elie from giving up and dying
Who is his father?
100
Gives human characteristics to an animal or object
What is personification?
100
Their ages
What do Elie and his father lie about?
200
Tries to warn the people of Sighet
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
200
His gold crown
What is the reason Elie's tooth is pulled?
200
Pretends to be dead after being shot in the leg
What is the reason Moishe is able to escape and come back to warn the Jews of Sighet?
200
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
Gold, jewelry, money, clothes, hair
What is taken from the Jews when they first arrive to the concentration camp?
300
Yelled on the train about seeing fire
Who is Madame Schachter?
300
Dysentery
What is wrong with Elie's father?
300
The reflection of a corpse
Who is staring back at Elie in the mirror?
300
Compares two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
The Kabbalah
What do Moishe and Elie get together and talk about?
400
The SS officer who whipped Elie
Who is Idek?
400
The reason a son kills his own father
What is a crust of bread?
400
Flames coming from a chimney in the distance
What is the first thing they see when the cattle car stops?
400
Repeats the same word or phrase
What is anaphora?
400
The celebration of Jewish freedom from slavery
What is Passover?
500
Played a Beethoven concerto on his violin as he was dying
Who is Juliek?
500
Elie would have been freed by the Russian Army a few days later.
What would have happened if Elie had stayed in the hospital and not evacuated Buna?
500
Causes Elie to promise himself that he will never leave his father
What is Rabbi Eliahou's son running off and leaving him behind?
500
References a well-known story, person, or event
What is an allusion?
500
The strongest prisoner who dies on the train after giving up hope
Who is Meir Katz?
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