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Selection
Figurative Language
Places
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The process of separating the useful people and the useless people. The useful people are put to work, but the useless people are killed.
What is selection?
100
"...and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes."
What is a simile?
100
A town in Transyivania where Elie and his family lived before being forced into the Concentratioon Camps.
What is Sighet
100
A symbole given to the Jewish to show that they were Jewish.
What is a yellow star?
100
The code A-7713 written on Elie.
How is Elie identified?
200
The reason why Elie's mother and two sisters were killed.
What is separation or selection?
200
"That night the soup tasted of corpses"
What is a metaphor?
200
These are Jewish settlements set up by Germans (Not Concentration Camps).
What are ghettos?
200
Used to transport the Jewish to the concentration camps.
What are cattle trains?
200
Even the fittest men will cry and die is proven after the death of this man.
Who is Meir Katz?
300
A spoon and a knife was given to Elie from his father.
What is Elie's inheritance?
300
"It was cold. We got into our bunks. The last night in Buna. Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer would our lives be lived from one "last night" to the next?"
What is repitition?
300
The place the prisoners ran to during the winter march.
What is Gleiwitz?
300
Someone who hates, hostile, or a prejudice against Jewish.
What is anti-semitism?
300
12 people out of ___ survived the train ride with Elie.
How much is 100?
400
The number of times Elie went through selection.
What is three times?
400
"But these men here, whom you have betrayed, whom you have allowed to be tortured and butchered."
What is an alliteration?
400
A Jewish house of worship.
What is a synagogue?
400
A fiery furnace where many Jews are sent to their deaths.
What are crematories?
400
Even with dysentery, Elie's father gets a beating from his man.
Who is the Frenchman.
500
The place the people who fail selection go to.
What are the gas chambers?
500
"On the seventh day of Passover, the curtain finally rose: the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community."
What is imagery?
500
The second Concentration Camp that Elie and his father are taken to.
What is Buena
500
A political movement to creat and maintain a Jewish state; the word is derived from Zion, another name for Jerusalem.
What is zionism
500
Hitlers promise.
What is exterminating the whole Jewish race?