Characters
Who is the narrator of the story?
Elie
In what point of view is the story written?
A. First
B. Second
C. Third person limited
D. Third person omniscient
A. First person
How do people treat Moishe the Beadle once he returns?
They do not believe his stories and they refuse to listen to him
Whose death solidifies Elie's loss of faith?
A. His father
B. Moishe the Beadle
C. The pipel
D. Akiba Drummer
C. The pipel
The receiving camp for Auschwitz
A. Sighet
B. Birkenau
Birkenau
Who teaches Elie about Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism)?
Moishe the Beadle
What term refers to the ill-treatment and hatred toward the Jewish population?
Anti-Semetism
What does Madame Schachter repeatedly scream during the transport?
Bonus 100 points: This is an example of what literary device?
Fire
What would have happened to Elie and his father if they had stayed in the hospital after his foot surgery?
They would have been liberated two days later
Elie and his family relocated here before transportation
A. Buna
B. The ghetto
B. The ghetto
A Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him
Rabbi Eliahu
During what war does this story take place?
World War II
What occupation does Elie tell the SS he does for a living?
Farmer
What happened when German workmen throw scraps of bread in the train car?
The jewish prisoners fight each other to the death for the scraps
Elie lost his gold crown here
A. Buna
B. Auschwitz
A. Buna
A woman from Sighet who foreshadows the furnaces
Madam Schacter
Which town is Elie and his family from?
Sighet
What two personal items are the Jews allowed to keep?
belt, shoes
What was Elie's father's last words to him?
His name: Elie/Eliezer
Elie is assigned his number A-17713 here
A. Gleiwitz
B. Auschwitz
B. Auschwitz
A musician who plays the violin
Juliek
What did Elie want to study?
Kabbala
To which unit are Elie and his father assigned?
The electrical unit
After being liberated, Elie describes looking at himself in the mirror as looking like what?
A corpose
Elie is Liberated from his camp
Buchenwald