Tone/Mood
Vocab
Judaism and Historic Culture
Summary
Concentration Camps
100

The author's or character's attitude of a subject

What is tone?

100

This is a prejudice against the Jewish culture and religion

Anti-Semitism

100

Elie studies what with Moshe the Beadle?

Mysticism/Kabballah

100

The town that Elie and his family are from

Sighet

100

Why does Elie end up having to have an operation?

His foot swells

200

The atmosphere or feelings developed for the reader

What is mood?

200

This was used to beat many Jewish people

What is a truncheon?

200

What is the Kaddish?

Jewish prayer for the dead

200

What item did the SS extract from the Jews at the camp?

gold teeth

200

What does Elie pray to God that he will never do?

Abandon his father

300

Three things needed to identify TONE

What is connotations, diction/topic, and attitude

300

This concentration camp was located in Poland and was one of the most notorious camps.

What is Auschwitz?

300

Which holiday did the Jewish people fast in order to repent of their sins?

Yom Kippur

300

What is Elie's "inheritance" from his father?

a spoon and a knife
300

What happened to the men who slowed down on the way to Gleiwitz?

Shot and trampled

400

Three things needed to identify MOOD

What is connotations, imagery, and setting?

400
True or False ? 

The Holocaust was the mass systematic persecution of more than just Jewish people.

True. It included other races, those with disabilities, and those with other beliefs.

400

Which holiday did the Jewish people celebrate the New Year?

Rosh Hashanah

400

Whose death symbolizes the loss of Elie's faith? (This death causes him to look at the soup and taste corpses)

the pipel 

400

How many men get OFF the train car at Buchenwald?

12

500

Identify the MOOD: How it makes ___ feel 

"I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation."

Heartbroken, Sympathetic, Etc.

500

This notorious doctor was in charge of the selection process at Buna, Birkenau, and Auschwitz

Dr. Mengele

500

What stares back at Elie at the end of the novel?

corpse

500

What set of years/decade does this book take place in?

1940s

500

What is the slogan for Auschwitz?

work is liberty