Night Vocab / Text Questions

Based on Definitions

300

State of extreme poverty or destitution 

Penury 

300

in a random manner; unsystematically.

indiscriminately 

300

1. the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil 

2. the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt. 

Redemption

400

suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way.

insinuate

500

in a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.

irrevocably 

Based on Word

300

Bleak

1. lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness: grim.

2. not hopeful or encouraging: depressing.  

300

Rescind 

revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).

300

Elude

to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade

400

Exalt

hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.

500

surreptitiously 

in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively.

Part of Speech

300

Throng

(Most often) Noun 

(Half Points) - Verb

300

Edict

Noun

300

Sublime

adjective

400

Conscientious

Adjective

500

Farce

Noun

Used in a Sentence

300

she was picked to lead the volunteer group because of her _____ and enthusiasm

vigor

300

Valeria was born in 2001, ten years after Ukraine gained independence from Russia, and, until the full-scale invasion, the country’s fraught, volatile politics had given her and her generation a ______ outlook.

cynical

300

The spreading of the disease caused mass ______ in the village.

hysteria

400

This insight, and the ________ Wilson brings to it, may be the greatest revelation of her Iliad.

lucidity

500

We look at digital media—images, audio and video—and we try to _______ whether or not they've been manipulated.

ascertain 

Preface / Ch. 1 Questions

300

Why didn't people believe Beadle when he returned to Sighet?

We can infer that the reason no one believed him was because the stories he told were so horrific that people almost refused to believe that kind of cruelty existed in the world. 

300

What was the significance of Hungary joining the Axis power in relation to Elie's life and circumstances? 

Elie's hometown of Sighet was originally part of Romania, but the German government forced Romania to give the land to Hungary, thus putting them in a country closely aligned with the Nazis. 

300

In the Preface, what makes Elie's original opening of the novel so "cynical"? 

He believes his trust and his faith in his God were the reasons he suffered so much. He referred to faith as "childish" and trust as "vain". 

400

Where in Chapter 1 can you identify an example of "Tragic Irony"

1. His father saying the yellow stars they were forced to wear weren't "lethal" 

2. When he described the day he moved into the smaller ghetto as getting, "settled in".

500

What were the three edicts implemented by the occupying Germans?  (you need all three)

1st:  Jewish people could not leave their homes for three days

2nd: Jewish people could not own valuables

3rd: They had to wear yellow stars