What was the biggest reason Moshe the Beadle important to Elie?
What is he instructed him in the mystical aspects of the Jewish faith.
100
Where is the story set?
What is Sighet, Transylvania.
100
Madame Schachter’s visions and screaming are examples of what literary term?
What is foreshadowing.
100
What was Elie’s primary concern as he and his family were herded from the train?
What is to stay with his father.
100
What was one of the “tricks” Elie uses to survive selection?
What is he gives himself “color” by running and pinching his cheeks
200
What did Madame Schachter see in her vision?
What is a furnace and flames.
200
Before Elie's community was deported from Sighet, what happened to them?
What is they were placed into two ghettos.
200
The statement, “A terrible thought loomed in my mind and a deafening silence rung in my ears” contains an example of
What is oxymoron.
200
Which of the following deaths had an intense impact on the prisoners?
What is the hanging of the pipel—the young assistant of Dutch Oberkapo
200
During his time in the concentration and death camps, what does Elie focus on more than anything else?
What is finding food.
300
After Moshe returned from his deportation how did the community react to him?
What is the community rejected Moshe’s “stories” and went on with life as usual.
300
After being released, what does Wiesel say he and the other ex-prisoners think about revenge?
What is they didn't think about it all; all they wanted was food.
300
Wiesel says of Rabbi Eliahou, “He was like one of the old prophets in the stories of the Old Testament”…this reference to the literature of the Hebrew people is an example of:
What is allusion.
300
What was Elie’s decision about fasting on Yom Kippur? Why did he make that decision?
What is he did not fast as an act of rebellion against God’s silence.
300
What did Elie dream of when he dreamed of a better world?
What is a world with no bells to regulate life.
"The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell" (72).
400
How old is Elie during the course of the novel
What is ages 12-15. Elie Wiesel was born September 30, 1928. The novel begins in 1941 -- Wiesel tells us on page 1, "I was 12."
400
In the camp hospital, Elie’s neighbor remarks that there is only one person/being/group who has kept his/their promises to the Jews. Who is it?
What is Hitler
400
Wiesel says of this father and son, “For three years, an eternity, they had stuck together.” Calling three years “an eternity” is an example of:
What is hyperbole.
400
What is the Kaddish?
What is the Jewish prayer for the dead.
400
What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou’s son just after the evacuation?
What is the son had been trying to lose his father as the men were all running.
500
Was Elie Wiesel's father only concerned with his family's safety?
What is no -- he cared very deeply about his community as well and was a very respected, caring, and practical man.
500
After Elie’s father asks the guard where the lavatory is and is then knocked to the ground by the guard, what does Elie realize?
What is that he has changed dramatically in a very short amount of time because he barely reacts to this horrific act.
500
Wiesel’s description of the Rabbi struggling to keep up, “his son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering, shuffling, and stumbling” contains and example of
What is alliteration.
500
Why does Elie say, “No better than Rabbi Eliahou’s son had I withstood the test”?
What is Elie abandoned his father during the alert at Buchenwald.