Night Trivia
What does it mean to be deported from a place?
Forced to leave
Explain how the relationship between Elie and his father evolved throughout the memoir.
Were not as close, got much closer, became one another's lifeline
This vocabulary word means that something HAS to be done
imperative
What year did the Holocaust start and end?
1933 - 1945
The following quote is an example of _____.
Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? “I don’t know,” I told him, even more troubled and ill at ease. “I don’t know.”
Rhetorical Question
Moishe the Beadle
Give an example of how the prisoners were dehumanized
- Answers will vary
This vocabulary word means that chaotic, loud, or very confusing
tumultuous
How many Jewish people died during the Holocaust?
6 million
This quote is an example of __________
The race toward death had begun. First edict: Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death. Moishe the Beadle came running to our house. “I warned you,” he shouted. The race toward death had begun.
Dialoge
Who came to liberate Buna?
The Russians / Red Army
Explain how/why Nazis used public punishment and give an example
- Any of the four public punishments
- To make a point to other prisoners and ensure people do not disobey
- To dehumanize the prisoners
Explain something that Elie went through that would be considered surreal.
Anything that was bizarre, dreamlike, out of body experience
What was the term for Hitler's plan to murder all of the Jewish people to create an Ayran race?
The Final Solution
This is an example of _________ (not dialogue)
My father’s view was that it was not all bleak, or perhaps he just did not want to discourage the others, to throw salt on their wounds: “The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…”
Irony
Explain how the Nazis came and took rights away bit by bit. Give at least 3 examples.
First Jewish people had to give up jobs, kids couldnt go to school, had to wear Yellow star, Nazis came to live in their houses, then ghettos, then deportation...
Give an example of spiritual resistance
answers will vary - helping one another, giving bread, giving shoes etc
Explain a scenario that would be considered poignant?
anything that provokes an emotion - mostly of sadness and regret
Who were the major countries in the Allied Powers? The Axis Powers?
Allied - UK, America, USSR (Russia)
Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy
This is an example of ____________
My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much?
Internal conflict
What is an example of a choiceless choice?
- can vary - Elie giving up his tooth for his dad not being beat
What is Elie's main message in the Perils of Indifference?
The Dangers of not doing anything - warning what happens when people are indifferent to everything
What is an example of someone doing something in a surreptitious way?
Anything that is sneaky, trying to go against the rules
Explain Hitler's rise to power. Ensure you use the terms: WW1, economic struggle, blame, political party
After WW1, Germany was defeated. They were in an economic struggle and looking for a group to blame. Hitler rose to power with his political party the Nazis, and used Jewish people as a scape goat.
This is an example of _________.
It was Mrs. Schächter. Standing in the middle of the car, in the faint light filtering through the windows, she looked like a withered tree in a field of wheat. She was howling, pointing through the window:
Simile