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What is Elie's home - Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, or Russia?
What is Hungary.
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What does Mrs. Schacter yell in the train?
What is "Fire!"
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The phrase "a glacial wind lashed us like a whip" is an example of what literary device?
What is a simile.
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When is the only time Elie weeps during a hanging?
When the victim is a child.
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What would have happened if Elie and his father had stayed in the infirmary?
They would have been liberated by the Russian army.
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Who are the Jew's first oppressors - the Hungarian police, the German soldiers, the non-Jewish villagers, or the neighbors?
What is the Hungarian police.
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When the Jews first enter Auschwitz, their nostrils are assailed by what odor?
What is burning flesh?
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Why doesn't the dentist who is eventually hanged not extract Elie's gold tooth?
Because Elie pretends to be too sick to have his tooth pulled.
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Whenever Elie dreamed of a better world, he imagined a universe without _____. Fill in the blank.
What is "bells."
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During the transport, what did the prisoners fight over?
What is scraps of bread tossed into the open train cars by German workers.
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What does foreshadow mean?
What is to give hints of something that is going to happen later in the book.
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Rather than be cremated, what does Elie swear he will do instead?
Run into the electric wire and commit suicide.
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Why is it a great risk for the French girl to try to encourage Elie after he is beaten?
Because she is actually Jewish and if anyone knew that she can speak German it would seem suspicious.
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What was Elie's inheritance from his father?
What is a knife and a spoon.
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During the march to Gleiwitz, what happens to Zalman?
He is trampled to death.
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Why were the ghettos set up in Sighet?
As a means of containing and controlling the Jews before their deportation.
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Who were the Kapos?
Jewish prisoners put in charge of other prisoners.
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Why does Franek, the foreman, pick on Elie's dad?
Because Elie's dad cannot march in step.
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Why did Elie have an operation?
To drain an infection from his foot.
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What is the prisoners' first act as free men?
Looking for food.
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What are the Jews forced to give up after their first stops in Kaschau?
What is their gold and silver.
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When Idek beat Elie's father for no reason, who was Elie angry with?
His father.
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What is the purpose of Selection Day?
To separate those who were to die from those who were to live.
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Why were the prisoners evacuated from Auschwitz?
Because the Russian Army was advancing.
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How does Elie discover that his father has died?
Someone else is sleeping in his bed.