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Elie wanted his family to move here.

•Palestine

The day of atonement is called…

•Yom Kippur

Elie grew up in the country of ___.

•Transylvania

Jewish musicians were not allowed to play music composed by ___.

•Beethoven

Elie had surgery on his ___.

• foot

Elie’s father’s first name.

•Chlomo

___ tried to warn the Jews of Sighet.

•Moshe the Beadle

During the evacuation, what was the weather like?

• snowing

Elie’s “inheritance” was a ___ and a ___.

•Knife and spoon

In what year does the story begin?

•1941

In what year does the story end?

•1945, with the end of the war

How old was Elie when the story begins?

•Almost 13

Every Jew was made to wear the ___ of ___.

•Star … David

Who offered the Wiesel family refuge in her village?

•Martha/Maria (depending on

translation)

What words were over the entrance to Auschwitz?

•“Arbeit macht Frei.” (Work is liberty)

For whom do Jews say kaddish?

•The dead

Who became Elie’s instructor in the mystical aspects of the Jewish faith?

•Moshe

What terror did Moshe describe when he retured?•The deportees had

been shot and dumped into large mass graves.

True or False: Many of the people believed Moshe's story and prepared to leave Sighet.•False

What was the setting and the year for the first section of the book?•1942-1944 in

Sighet, Transylvania

True or False: Elie's mother and sisters went to Martha's village.

•False

What did Madame Schächter see in her vision?•She saw a fire--a

furnace, with huge flames.

True or False: Some of the young men tied Madame Schächter up and gagged her. Then theyhit her.•True

Which notorious SS officer did they meet at the concentration camp?•They met Dr.

Mengele.

What was Elie's main thought as the men and women were being herded from the first train?• It was to stay with his

father at all costs.

True or False: The people were reciting the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, for themselves.•True

True or False: Elie beat up the gypsy who struck his father.•False

What did Franek want from Elie?

•He wanted Elie's gold tooth.

What happened to the young man from Warsaw?•He was hanged for

stealing during the air-raid.

How did Elie say the soup tasted the night the pipel (young servant boy) was hanged?

•He said it tasted of corpses.

What was Elie's decision about fasting on Yom Kippur? Why did he make that decision?• He did not fast, partly as

an act of rebellion against God.

What was Elie's inheritance from his father?

•The inheritance was a knife and spoon.

Did the men remember to say the Kaddish for Akiba Drumer?

•No

What happened to the patients who stayed in the hospital instead of being evacuated?•They were liberated by the

Russians two days after the others left.

What was the last thing the head of the block ordered the men to do before they evacuated?•Clean

What was the weather like during the evacuation?

• It snowed.

What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou's son just after the evacuation?

•The son had been trying to lose his father as the men were all running.

True or False: Juliek played a Mozart concerto for the men in the camp.

•False

Who died in the train just before the men were unloaded at Buchenwald?•Meir Katz

How many men started out in the train? How many were left when they arrived at Buchenwald?•100, 12