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Vocabulary ReviewVocabulary Review

•Withered, dried up, shriveled

•Answer: Wizened

•To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission

•Answer: Prostrate

•The state of the spirits of a person or group

•Answer: Morale

•To force or drive out; to force to leave

•Answer: Expelled

•Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship

•Answer: Refuge

•Difficult to bear burdensome, weighing heavily on the sense or spirit

•Answer: Oppressive

•Of or relating to hell, fiendish, diabolical

•Answer: Infernal

•An inflammatory disease of the lower intestinal tract, caused by a bacterial parasitic infection

•Answer: dysentery

•Of or relating to, or occurring in the night

•Answer: nocturnal

•Having religious reverence; devout

•Answer: pious

•An intervening episode, feature, or period of time

•Answer: interlude

•Full of health and strength, powerfully built

•Answer: robust

•Discolored, as from a bruise, extremely angry, furious

•Answer: livid

•Being or seeming to be without and end, tiresomely long

•Answer: interminable

•A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust. To make a sharpt contortion of the face

•Answer: grimace

•A fixed portion of food. To restrict or limit allotments

•Answer: ration

•A period of time of enforced isolation or restriction of free movement

•Answer: quarantine

•To postpone or cancel the punishment of, to bring relief to

•Answer: reprieve

•Lack of concern or interest, lack of emotion or feeling

•Answer: Apathy

•Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion

•Answer: humane

Character IdentificationCharacter Identification“She was about fifty… Her

husband and two eldest sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake. The separation had completely broken her.”

•Answer: Madame Schachter

“… a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle; a conductor’s baton in his hand… The Baton moved unremittingly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.”

•Answer: Dr. Mengele

“I don’t attach any importance to my life anymore. I’m alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you.”

•Answer: Moshe the Beadle

Whips Elie for seeing him with a naked girl

•Answer: Idek

He was almost thrown off the train because the prisoners thought he was frozen to death.

•Answer: Elie’s Father (Chlomo)

Does not realize that his son has abandoned him during the forced run

•Answer: Rabbi Eliahou

• At the beginning of the book, when Eliezer prays, he

a. smiles.

b. concentrates

c. weeps

d. grimaces

•Answer: c. weeps

• The Jews in the Sighet ghettos

a. refuse to cooperate with the Nazis at all.

b. set up a basic city government.

c. treat each other badly.

d. have more freedom than before.

•Answer: b. set up a basic city government.

• The musicians on the work crew are not permitted to play Beethoven because

– A. the Nazis hate Beethoven– B. the music might distract

the prisoners.– C. Beethoven was a Jew.– D. Jews are not allowed to

play German music.

•Answer: D. Jews are not allowed to play German music.