Events
The place where Elie and his family are from
Where is Sighet?
What literary device does Madame Schechter’s visions represent?
What is foreshadowing?
Why are there less people in the cattle car at the end of the story?
What is the Germans have killed off most of the Jews?
“My father and I were ourselves thrown to the ground by this rolling tide. Beneath our feet someone let out a rattling cry: “You’re crushing me….mercy!”
The type of conflict is...
What is person vs. person or man vs. man?
“I quickly forgot [Zalman]. I began to think of myself again.” (p. 86) What does this show? Why can Elie not focus on helping others?
What is the relationship between Moshie and Elie?
What is teacher to student?
“I sat next to him, watching him; I no longer dared to believe that he could still elude Death."
What literary device is used in this quote?
What is personification?
1.The Jewish people see the gallows (where prisoners are hanged)
2. Elie’s cousin brings him bread
3. Elie and his father evacuate Buna
4. Meri’s son kills him for a crust of bread.
These are four plot points in the novel. Which does not create suspense?
What is number 2, or Elie getting bread?
“Everyone walked as he wished, as he could. No more gunshots. Our guards surely were tired. But death hardly needed their help. The cold was conscientiously doing its work. At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer.”
The type of conflict is...
What is Person (man) vs. Nature (Environment)?
"Work Makes You Free." Where does Elie see this phrase?
What is the sign or logo or motto for Auschwitz (the concentration camp)?
The reason Elie is sent to the hospital
What is foot (swells, infected, pus-filled)?
“Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void.”
The quote above is an example of which literary device?
What is personification?
Whose death represents the theme of loss of faith or loss of innocence for Elie?
Who is the Pipel's death (or the young boy that was hanged)?
“I spent my days in a state of total idleness. And I had but one desire—to eat. I no longer thought of my father or of my mother.”
The type of conflict is...
What is person vs. self? (man vs. self)
22. “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” Based on the context, what does annihilate mean?
What is killed, destroyed, obliterated, wiped out completely?
Elie's inheritance from his father would have been...
What is a knife and a spoon?
Elie says, “The SS offered us a beautiful present for the new year.” What type of literary device is this?
FOR FULL POINTS, YOU MUST ANSWER THE EXACT TERM. HALF RIGHT IS ONLY HALF CREDIT.
What is verbal irony?
After being rescued, Eliezer says, “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves on the provisions….And even when we're no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge.” Why do the prisoners not think about revenge?
What is they are still in the mindset of being focused on survival/trained to only worry about food/not dying/etc.?
“Hitler was going to keep his promise. This tyrant’s beliefs werefor annihilation against many cultures and societies. He was confident that he was better than others; therefore, they deserved to die.”
The type of conflict is...
What is person vs. society or man vs. society?
“The workmen were going to work. They stopped and stared after us, but otherwise showed no surprise.” What does this suggest because the Germans are not surprised to see the train car of Jews at the end of the novel?
What is they are used to seeing the trains because they come through often, OR they do not view the Jewish people as human, so they are desensitized to the cruel treatment of them?
In the novel, Elie's father is beaten by Idek. How does Elie begin to feel TOWARDS his FATHER? (NOT IDEK)
What is angry (mad)?
After running in the freezing temperatures for over 20 kilometers, Elie sits down in the snow, which he describes, as being “…like a carpet, very gentle, very warm.” This is an example of which literary device...
HALF RIGHT IS ONLY HALF CREDIT.
number that was tattooed on Elie's arm.
What is situational irony?
The references to "Pitch darkness," "an even darker night," "Night had fallen," represent the time of day in the book. Although it tells the reader what time it is, what does night also seem to symbolize?
What is hopelessness or evil? (something close to these answers)
After watching Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandon his father during the death march, Eliezer says, “Almost against my will I found myself praying to a God in whom I no longer believed: ‘My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done.’
This type of conflict is...
What is person vs self or man vs. self?
The text says, “…a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” Why does Elie call himself a corpse and refers to himself in the third person by saying he looked into "his eyes."
What does this show?
Hint: the answer is NOT about his physical appearance/him looking different
What is he does not identify himself as that person/he thinks that the Elie has "died" in the camp since he is a corpse?