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Question 1
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Question 2
2.

On what day is Elie’s family deported from Sighet?

Question 3
3.

At Auschwitz, what does Elie do to Stein?

Question 4
4.

In the concentration camp hospital, Elie’s neighbor remarks that he has lost his faith in everything except ...?

Question 5
5.

When Madame Schâchter sees the furnace, this is an instance of what literary device?

Question 6
6.

Why do the Sighet Jews not believe Moshe the Beadle and think he has lost his mind when he warns them?

Question 7
7.

What is the fate of the Jews if someone in their railway boxcar tries to escape as they go to Auschwitz?

Question 8
8.

What invokes Elie to ponder the following: “Was there a single place here where you were not in danger of death?”

Question 9
9.

At Auschwitz, a smiling, compassionate young Polish prisoner-overseer alleviates their terror with the first humane words Elie has heard in a long time. What does he say?

Question 10
10.

According to Elie, who forsakes the prisoners?

Question 11
11.

Why does Juliek play a fragment of a Beethoven concerto as he is crushed to death?

Question 12
12.

“Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything.” What is Elie describing?

Question 13
13.

In his last breath, Chlomo Wiesel said what in Hebrew, which means “God help you”?

Question 14
14.

What is A-7713?

Question 15
15.

Answer the following question in no less than 3 complete sentences.
Explain what is ironic about the following: “My father did not consider it so grim … ‘The yellow star? Oh, well what of it? You don’t die of it…”

Question 16
16.

Answer the following question in no less than 3 complete sentences.
In what way is the hanging of the young pipel symbolic of the Jewish race? (HINT: Think about what Elie says at the hanging)

Choose the correct name below for each question. Some choices will be used more than once.
author of the memior
Elie Wiesel
revolts against God and refuses to bless His name
Sighet
warns Jews of Sighet about the Gestapo massacring their race
Madame Schâchter
performs two selections, one at Buna and another at Birkenau
Elie Wiesel
is the only one from their family to survive the Holocaust
Madame Schâchter
A-7713
Mr. Wiesel
all forgien Jews were the first to be expelled from this town
Sighet
town where the memior begins
Elie Wiesel
thinks there is a fire before anyone actually sees one
Idek
refuses to immigrate to Palestine
Elie Wiesel
has periodic fits of madness and beats Elie and his father
Idek
had three sisters
Mr. Wiesel
is a kapo
Elie Wiesel
dies due to dysentary and a beating by an SS officer
Dr. Mengele
gave spoon and knife to son as his inheritance
Mr. Wiesel
husband and two sons were deported before she was
Rabbi Eliahou
performed medical experiments on Jews during the Holocaust
Moshe the Beadle
searches for his son at a "rest stop" during the death march from Buna
Elie Wiesel
may have still been alive when carried to the crematorium
Mr. Wiesel
looks in mirror and sees a "corpse" looking back