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This character a violin player who is dies in the pile of bodies outside Gliewitz camp.

JULIEK

100
Elie is liberated from this camp...

Buchenwald

100

When Elie interrupts the narrative of the train ride to tell of a time, years later, when he saw a woman throwing coins to children, he is using this literary technique... 

FLASHFORWARD
100

With reference to God, Elie views his refusal to fast on Yom Kippur as a _____________

Rebellion or protest 

100
Known as the "Windy City," this city is home to 7 professional sports teams, including two MLB teams

CHICAGO

200
This is what Elie calls his father's gift of the knife and spoon....

His inheritance 

200
What important event happens between January 28 and January 29, 1945?

Elie's father dies 

200

“All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. This must be how one stands for the Last Judgement” is an example of...

ALLUSION

200
Finish the quotation from chapter 6: "I knew that to sleep meant to __________."

DIE

200
Name any one of the three social media apps with the most monthly average users (they each have over 3 BILLION users montly)

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

WHATSAPP

300

The last word(s) of Shlomo Wiesel

"Eliezer"

300

The hanging of the young pipel takes place in this location

Appelplatz/courtyard at Buna

300

“Men were hurtling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at, and mauling each other. Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes” is an example of...

METAPHOR

300

This pivotal event had a major impact on Elie's perspective, causing him to suggest that God was "dead" or "dying"

The hanging of the young boy in Buna

300

The location of this year's Winter Olympics

Milan (Milano Cortina)

400

The rabbi who is abandoned by his son on the death march

Rabbi Eliahu

400

The name of the camp where Elie, Juliek, and others are trapped in a mass of bodies. 

GLEIWITZ

400

Prisoners reciting Kaddish (the prayer of the dead) for themselves is an example of...

SITUATIONAL IRONY 

400

Prisoners go from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald by this method...

roofless cattle cars

400

Name any one of the two US Senators from Massachusetts

Elizabeth Warren

Ed Markey

500

This character gives up and allows himself to be taken in the selection once he feels doubts about his faith

AKIBA DRUMER 

500

The time frame (in years) covered in the memoir. 

1941-1945

500

"Next to him lay his violin, an eerily poignant little corpse" is an example of...

PERSONIFICATION

500

Why does Elie refer to himself and other prisoners as "masters of nature"?

Because they have lived through the horrible conditions on the death march 

500

This country is said to have to most beaches in the world, with over 16,000 miles of coast. It is bordered by the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 

AUSTRALIA