Vocabulary | Vocab Part 2 | Owners and Objects | Where in the World? | Grab Bag |
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What is an eyeglass for correcting the vision of one eye, held in position by the muscles around the eye socket?
monocle
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What is "devoutly religious"?
pious
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Which character is associated with a violin?
Juliek
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Where is Elie's home?
Sighet
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Where are prisoners lined up daily and counted?
roll call
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What is the repetition of an initial word or phrase to emphasize an author's point?
anaphora
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What is "lacking normal human feelings of pity or remorse"?
bestial
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Which character has a gold crown?
Elie?
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Where do Elie's mother and sister die?
Auschwitz
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Where must prisoners go before entering each camp?
the showers
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Who are guards or trustees chosen from the prisoners?
kapos
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What is "occurring at night, as opposed to during the day"?
nocturnal
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Which character wears a monocle?
Dr. Mengele
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Where do Elie and his father have Idek as their Kapo?
Buna
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What are prisoners often beaten with?
truncheons
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What is being immobilized with fear?
petrified
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What is "to criticize or question somebody to try and persuade them to do something in a forceful way"?
harangue
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Which character uses a whip?
Idek
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Where is the place of anti-Semitic activity?
Budapest
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Why don't Elie's new shoes get taken away at Buna?
they are covered in mud
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What are flattery and enticements used to persuade somebody to do something?
blandishments
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What is "extreme anxiety or emotional torment"?
anguish
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Which character has a spoon and knife as his only possessions for most of the book?
Chlomo (Elie's dad)
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Where does Elie's father die?
Buchenwald
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What does Elie pray to God that he will never do?
abandon his father
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