Night Test

What are two details from the last 24 hours before they were transported?

1. They stay in a deserted synagogue. 2. People were relieving themselves in a corner because they were not allowed outside.

How many fit in a cattle car later?

100

When was the last time the head of Elie's block had been outside of a concentration camp?

1933

How many miles did they run?

42

How many people fit into a cattle car at the beginning?

80

What does Elie thank God for?

A layer of mud covers his new shoes, so he gets to keep them.

What was Elie's ID number?

A-7713

Infinite

Adj. Never ending

Surreptitiously

Adj. Secretly or sneakily

What present did Elie's father bring him?

After selection, Elie's father brought him half of a ration of bread that he got by trading a piece of rubber for a shoe sole.

"He would break our hearts with his deep solemn voice... He said, 'God is testing us... He loves us all the more" (Wiesel 42).

Akiba Drumer

"Lately, he had wandered among us, his eyes glazed, telling everyone of his weakness... It was impossible to raise his morale" (Wiesel 72).

Akiba Drumer

What did the Hungarian officer collect in his basket?

All of the Jews' valuables, such as watches and jewelry.

What was their next camp?

Buna

Which new camp are the prisoners sent to?

Buna

"He was a typical SS officer: a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle. A conductor's baton in his hand, was standing among the other officers. The baton moved unremittingly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left" (Wiesel 29).

Dr. Mengele

What does Elie's father die of?

Dysentary

Why did Elie spend a lot of time with Moshe the Beadle?

Elie dreamed of studying the Cabbala, so he often talked with Moshe in the synagogue.

How does Elie arrange to work next to his father in Buna?

Elie simply asks Franek, the foreman, if he can work next to his father.

"He was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emotion, even at home. He was more concerned with others than with his own family" (Wiesel 2).

Elie's Father (Chlomo)

Why did Elie's father wish Elie had gone with his mother?

Elie's father does not want to have to watch his son die.

Why did the gypsy strike Elie's father?

Elie's father had to go to the bathroom and asked where one was.

Why didn't Elie fast on Yom Kippur?

Elie's father would not let him fast because he was too undernourished. However, Elie enjoys his act of rebellion towards God.

What was Elie's last view of his mother and sister?

Elie's mother was stroking his baby sister's hair, as if to protect her.

At the beginning of the book, what is most important to Elie?

Faith and religion

What occupation does Elie say he had at home?

Farmer

"The foreman was a Pole, a former student from Warsaw" (Wiesel 47).

Franek

"The sympathetic intelligent youth was suddenly no longer the same person. His eyes gleamed with desire... He knew where to touch me; he knew my weak point" (Wiesel 52-53).

Franek

Why does Elie eventually give up his gold crown?

Franek, the foreman, is teasing and torturing his father for not knowing how to march properly. Although Elie attempts to teach him, he is not successful and Elie must eventually surrender his crown.

Why does it take the pipel so long to die?

Given that he is too small, he is not heavy enough to break his neck when hanged. Therefore, he must suffocate.

The morning they are to be transported, Elie walks out of the house first, ahead of his family. Why?

He doesn't want to see his family's faces, especially those of him mom and dad.

How did Elie separate himself?

He felt his body and mind as two separate beings.

Why does Elie's father give him a knife and spoon?

He gives it as an "inheritance" since he must go through a second round of selection.

What caused a great change in Moshe the Beadle?

He had been deported with many other Jews, who were forced to dig their own graves and then murdered. Moshe escaped by pretending to be dead.

Why does Elie go to the hospital? Why does he leave early?

He had pus in his foot and it becomes very swollen. He leaves because he fears the invalids will be killed after Buna is evacuated.

What did Elie have to do for 12 hours a day as his new job?

He had to move heavy blocks.

How did Zalman die?

He has a stomach cramp and must take a break, so he sits down. He is then stampeded by the other marching prisoners.

Why can't Elie weep at his father's death?

He has no tears left because he is so tired and weary.

Why is Elie reluctant to pray when he marches towards the crematory?

He is beginning to lose all faith because he believes that God is allowing this to happen to innocent people.

How had Elie's father changed in one night?

He look tired and weary. His back was twisted and every part of him looked sad.

How did Elie survive the stampede?

He made a hole to breathe.

What does Juliek do for the dead and dying men?

He plays Beethoven on his violon.

What changes Elie's life forever?

He sees babies and young children being thrown into the crematory fire.

Why did they get a new head for their block?

He was considered too humane.

What is Elie's job in Buna?

He works in the electrical warehouse, separating nails and other small pieces of equipment.

Why was the sad-eyed angel hanged?

His Oberkapo was attempting to sabotage the camp's power station and had hidden weapons.

What kept Elie from dying?

His father standing next to him.

"He was seized with one of his fits of frenzy, I got in his way. He leapt on me, like a wild animal, and pulling me up again, his blows growing more and more violent" (Wiesel 50).

Idek

Why did running make the prisoners feel better?

It warmed their bodies.

The night before they are liquidated, there is knocking on the sealed window of Elie's home. Who was it and why?

It was Elie's father's friend who was a Hungarian police officer, warning them of danger to come.

What was the air like after the bombings?

It was laden with smoke and fire.

"He was a bespectacled Pole with a cynical smile on his pale face" (Wiesel 47).

Juliek

"He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings-his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again. I shall never forget him" (Wiesel 90).

Juliek

"It was as though she were possessed by an evil spirit which spoke from the depths of her being" (Wiesel 23).

Madame Schachter

"She had gone out of her mind. On the first day of the journey she had already begun to moan and to keep asking why she had beeb separated from her family. As time went on, her cries grew hysterical" (Wiesel 22).

Madame Schachter

"She was about fifty; her ten-year-old son was with her, crouched in the corner. Her husband and two eldest sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake. The separation had completely broken her" (Wiesel 22).

Madame Schachter

"He had worked as a gardener at Buna and used to bring us a few green vegetables occasionally. Being less undernourished than the rest of us, he had stood up to the imprisonment better" (Wiesel 96).

Meir Katz

"The strong man, the most robust of us all, wept. His son had been taken from him at the time of the first selection, but it was now that he wept. It was now that he cracked up. He was finished, at the end of his tether" (Wiesel 97).

Meir Katz

What is Elie and Moshe's relationship?

Moshe gives Elie guidance in learning the Cabbala

"He was a man of all work at a Hasidic synagogue. The Jews of Sighet were all very fond of him. He was very poor and lived humbly... Nobody ever felt embarrassed by him. Nobody ever felt encumbered by his presence. He was a past master in the art of making himself insignificant, of seeming invisible" (Wiesel 1).

Moshe the Beadle

Lamentation

N. A complaint of grief or sadness

Reprieve

N. A delay

Nazism

N. A form of socialism featuring racism, expansionism, and obedience to a strong power

Fascism

N. A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power

Convoy

N. A group of vehicles traveling with armed troops

Zionism

N. A movement for the re-establishment and the development or protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel

SS (Shutzstaffel)

N. A paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany banned as criminal in 1945

Ghetto

N. A section of a city in which all Jews were required to live

Musulman

N. A weak prisoner who is often selected and killed during selection

Semblance

N. An outward appearance

Automatons

N. Machines that imitate human beings

Relics

N. Objects surviving from a previous time

Provisions

N. Small amounts of something, usually food

Constraint

N. Something that limits someone or something

Cabbala

N. The Ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation and of the Bible

Gestapo

N. The German state secret police during the Nazi regime

Kaddish

N. The Hebrew prayer for the dead

Mysticism

N. The belief that direct knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experiences

Talmud

N. The collection of Jewish law and tradition (Jewish Bible)

Revelation

N. The divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or world

On which days did the Jews not work and have thicker soup? What is ironic about this?

On Christmas and New Year's Day. This is ironic because the Jews do not celebrate these holidays.

"He was the rabbi of a small Polish community. He was a very good man, well loved by everyone in the camp, even by the Kapos and the heads of blocks. Despite the trials and privations, his face still shone with his inner purity" (Wiesel 86).

Rabbi Eliahou

"His son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he had continued to run on in front, letting the distance between the distance between them grow greater" (Wiesel 87).

Rabbi Eliahou

What day of the week was Elie's family expelled?

Saturday

How was Madame Shachter a prophet?

She claimed to see a blazing fire while on the train, which none of the Jews believed. However, they all see the blazing flames of the crematory when they arrive at Auschwitz.

Maria, a former maid, offers the family something. What?

She offers to hide them in her home.

What was happening to the women?

Some of the women were sent to labor camps, while many were sent to the gas chambers and then the crematory.

"I though perhaps you might have some news of Reizel and my little boys. They stayed behind in Antwerp" (Wiesel 40).

Stein

What is Birkenau?

The "reception center" of Auschwitz, where Jews and prisoners are processed.

What frontier was Kaschau located on?

The Czechoslovakian

Why would the men laugh if they had not been so scared?

The Jews were handed very incorrectly sized clothing. The smallest man was handed a huge shirt, while Meir Katz wore tiny shorts.

Why do the men have to strip?

The Nazis want to take their clothing and use it for war supplies.

Initially, the Jewish people do not mind living in the ghettoes and actually like it for one particular reason. What is that reason?

The ghetto is like a small Jewish community, with a Jewish government and police system.

What happens to the man who attempts to steal soup during the bombing at Buna?

The man is shot by a guard, causing him to let out a scream and fall backwards.

Who was the only victim of the bombing?

The man who tried to steal soup.

When they arrive at Auschwitz, Elie and his fellow train mates find out some information abut the camp. What is it?https://quizlet.com/39666874/edit#auto-define

They are told that the families will not be separated and they will not be killed. They will simply work and be safe until the war is over.

How do the Jews gradually lose their freedom?

They cannot have valuables, attend synagogue, leave their homes for three days, own businesses. They also have curfews and must wear the yellow star.

How did the community react to Moshe's news?

They refused to believe him and instead believed he was crazy.

What choice should Elie and his father had made concerning the Death March? Why?

They should have stayed in the prison hospital because the patients were liberated by the Russian/Red Army.

Why did Elie and his father lie to Dr. Mengele?

They wanted to seem stronger and more suited for work, instead of death.

Why couldn't they slacken their pace?

They would be shot.

How long were they in Gleiwitz?

Three days

"She held Mother's hand. I saw them disappear into the distance; my mother was stroking her fair hair, as though to protect her, while I walked on with my father and the other men" (Wiesel 27).

Tzipora

Rescind

V. To cancel

Consume

V. To eat whole; to make something disappear

Writhe

V. To twist (as if in pain)

According to the SS officers, what was the only way to avoid the crematory?

Work

What does the sign in front of Auschwitz say?

Work is liberty!

"There were two boys attached on our group, two brothers. They were Czechs whose parents had been exterminated at Birkenau. They lived, body and soul, for each other" (Wiesel 48).

Yossi and Tibi

"He was suddenly seized with a cramp in the stomach... He could not go on. He had to stop for a moment... His trousers lowered, he let himself sink down" (Wiesel 82).

Zalman