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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Chapter Questions
Chapter Questions
DO YOU DARE???
100
A family name
What is a surname?
100
short funny story
What is anecdote?
100
What does Elies father do for a living?
What is a shop owner?
100
Who tries to warn the Jews of Sighet about the German murder of Jews?
What is "Moshe the Beadle?"
100
a group of cars traveling together
What is a convoy?
200
Hindered or Restricted
What is encumbered?
200
sealed airtight
What is hermetically?
200
Why are the Jewish citizens of Sighet not concerned when the German soldiers first occupy their town?
What is "the germans were polite at first"
200
How many siblings does Elie have?
What is "three?"
200
Describe Madam Schachters situation
What is "having dreams or visions of the concentration camp"
300
Trivial, Not Important
What is Insignificant?
300
causing an epidemic disease
What is pestilential?
300
What does Elie’s father do when the Germans confiscated all the Jewish valuable?
What is "buried them in the cellar?"
300
The town of Sighet is located in:
What is "Transylvania?"
300
What does the Madam think she see's?
What is "fire or smoke"
400
Absolute, in an unqualified way
What is profoundly?
400
Recovering from an illness
What is convalescent?
400
Why are the Jewish people not particularly upset when they are herded into ghettos?
What is "they thought it was for their own good"
400
What year does the story begin?
What is 1941?
400
lacking strength or weak
What is feeble?
500
Written discussion of a topic
What is treatise?
500
clear understanding
What is lucidity?
500
How are the Jews transported from the ghettos in Sighet to Auschwitz?
What is "cattle cars?"
500
What restrictions do the Germans place upon the Jewish citizens of Sighet?
What is A.They can not eat in restaurants B. They can not ride the trains C. They can not attend synagogue
500
emptiness
What is void?