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What About Elie?
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Name the theme that fits these topics: Elie, Rabbi Eliahou, Moshe the Beadle, and Akiba Drumer

What is Struggle to Maintain Faith?

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Mass murder; murder on a large scale
What is Holocaust?
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Elie's teacher
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
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Define simile
What is comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
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Identify 3 groups of people Hitler targeted in the Holocaust.

What is: Jews, gypsies, communists, LGBTQ, disabled people, children, etc?

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This is the event Elie witnesses when he first arrives in the camps which causes him to question his faith in God.

What is the murder/burning of babies?

200
A preconceived or biased opinion, often held against someone (ex. the dislike of Jews)
What is a prejudice?
200
This is Elie's new name.
What is A-7713?
200
Define metaphor.
What is comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
200
Describe what happened to Madame Schachter on the train
What is: she was beaten and tied up for screaming that she saw fire?
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Explain how Elie's relationship with his father changes over time and provide a specific example of what his relationship was like before the Holocaust and after.
What is they become closer as they fight to survive. Examples will vary.
300
Hatred against Jews
What is anti-Semitism?
300
This is how Elie keeps his gold tooth.
What is: he says he's sick and has to ask his father for permission; eventually the dentist is killed.
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Using this quote, identify whether or not it is a simile or metaphor and then list what two things are being compared. “Here came the Rabbi…His mere presence among the deportees added a touch of unreality to the scene. It was like page torn from some storybook, from some historical novel about the captivity of Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition (Wiesel 14).”
What is "simile"? The two things are the Rabbi's presence and a page from a storybook.
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Akiba Drumer's final request is that Elie and his father say the Kaddish for him. What is the Kaddish and what happens 3 days after Akiba is dead?
What is the prayer for the dead? 3 days after he dies, they forget to pray for him.
400

At the end of the novel, why does Elie feel "free at last" when his father passes away? Provide text evidence. 

What is: he is relieved that he only has to worry about himself. Examples will vary. 

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Deliberately killing a large group of people, especially a particular ethnic group or nation
What is genocide?
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After being liberated, Elie says this is the most important thing. Explain why it is more important than revenge.
What is food? Food is more important than revenge because Elie and the prisoners have been starved for so long, it's the only thing they can think of. They are in basic survival mode.
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Using this quote, identify whether or not it is a simile or metaphor and then list what two things are being compared. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me (Wiesel 109).”
What is "metaphor"? It's comparing Elie to a corpse.
400

Identify who the pipel was and explain how his death affected the prisoners.

What is: he was a young servant for one of the commanders. He was hanged for breaking the rules; his death upsets the prisoners because they have to watch a young boy die slowly.

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Explain how Elie's faith in himself changes throughout the memoir. Provide a specific example.
What is Elie begins to trust himself more and rely on himself for his and his father's survival. Examples will vary.
500
Explain how the sign hanging over the entrance to Auschwitz stating "Work is liberty" is an example of irony.
What is because liberty means freedom and they will not be given freedom for working.
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List the order in which Elie visited the following places: Buna, the ghetto, Buchenwald, Birkenau, Auschwitz
What is: the ghetto, Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald?
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Using this quote, identify whether or not it is a simile or metaphor and then list what two things are being compared. “Wailing, groaning, cries of distress hurled into the wind and the snow. The contagion spread to the other carriages. Hundreds of cries rose up simultaneously" (Wiesel 97).

What is "Metaphor"? It compares cries of distress and contagion.

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Explain how the following statement is ironic: "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
The Jews felt like God had abandoned them, but Hitler and his promise of killing the Jews was ever-present in their lives and was keeping his promises--even though they were bad promises.