Vocab
Synonym for anguish, agony, and torment
What is pain? (I will also accept answers that fit the description of pain).
How does Elie describe his father at the beginning of the memoir?
What is unfeeling/unsentimental/cultured/nonchalant/not emotionally involved with his family?
Which notorious SS officer did they meet at Auschwitz?
What is Elie's main thought as men and women are being herded from the trains en route to Auschwitz?
Who is Dr. Mengele and what is to stay with his father?
How did Elie feel while the others were praying during Rosh Hashanah?
What is an observer or stranger? (On the quest you will be asked what this says about Elie's evolving faith)
Madame Schacter hallucinating and seeing fire before everyone saw the actual flames the crematoria
Foreshadowing
abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food
What is emaciated?
How old is Elie at the beginning of the memoir and what town in Transylvania was he born and raised in?
What is 12 or 13? What is Sighet?
How does Elie feel about God by section 2?
In section 3, during medical check-up, what are the "dentists" looking for?
What is anger or a synonym for anger?
What is a gold tooth?
What was Elie’s decision about fasting on Yom Kippur? Why did he make that decision? (Only require 1 reason)
What is to please his father or because he wanted to protest against God or because he no longer accepted God's silence?
"Jealousy devoured us, consumed us."
What is personification?
First word: quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive. Second word: to not care either way; to be____...
Correct answer etiquette: What is___? and What is ____?
What is meek? What is indifferent?
What is 3, responses will vary for Moshe's story, and what is people do not believe Moshe?
Who is the Kapo that has fits of rage? What is one thing he does to Elie?
Who notices Elie's gold tooth and makes him give it up?
Who is Franek?
On the death march, what keeps Elie running on, instead of giving up?
what agreement did Elie and his father reach during the nighttime?
What is his father
What is to not let the other fall asleep forever/keep watch over each other while they slept?
"The road was endless"
What is a hyperbole?
First word: Of vital importance; crucial. Second word: extremely happy.
Correct answer etiquette: What is___? and What is ____?
What is imperative? What is jubilant?
What were the Jews very first impression of the German soldiers when they first arrived in the ghettos?
What was one of restrictions places on Jews during/after Passover?
What is they were prohibited from leaving their homes, forbidden to own gold/valuables, or forced to wear a golden star, be on the streets after 6 PM, attend synagogue, frequent restaurants/cafes, or travel by rail (train)?
What is Elie's inheritance?
What happened the the patients who stayed in the hospital in section 4?
What is the last thing the head of the block orders the men to do before they evacuated? Why?
What is a knife and spoon?
What is they are liberated or freed (by the Russian army)?
What is they were forced to mop or clean so the liberating knew they were clean/"not pigs"/etc?
What horrific scene does Elie witness at 16 years old?
How does Elie's father die? How does Elie find out?
What is a father and son fight to death over bread?
What is he dies while in the hospital (dysentary)/replaced while Elie is asleep.
"I wrap myself tight around the feeling I cannot share, an unopened present, a gift no one wants."
"She and I became tight as freshly laundered jeans."
What is metaphor?
What is a simile?
First word: in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively. Second word: a specific type of short story, in reference to a real incident or person, usually in reference to a paragraph or two in a novel. Correct answer etiquette: What is___? and What is ____?
What is surreptitiously? What is anecdote?
When is the first time Elie sees his father weep?
Who does Elie consider his first oppressor to be?
How many Jews were forced into each cattle car?
What is when the Jews are forced to leave their homes/march?
Who is the Hungarian police?
What is 80?
Points given based on plot evidence and answer.
What happens to Elie directly after liberation?
What is his and the others survivors first act and priority as free men? Revenge, family, or bread/provisions?
What does Elie say mattered to him after his father died?
What is he falls ill and is hospitalized?
What is bread/provisions?
What is nothing mattered to him?
Give me an example of an alliteration. Give me an example of repetition. Give me an example of a simile using "like"
Up to Ms. M's discretion