night study

Question 1

to weigh down or burden someone or something

Answer 1

encumber

Question 2

a short personal account of an incident or event

Answer 2

anecdote

Question 3

to steal goods using force especially during war

Answer 3

pillage

Question 4

a thin fragile like appearance; look needy

Answer 4

waiflike

Question 5

not important

Answer 5

insignificant

Question 6

firmly held belief

Answer 6

conviction

Question 7

an important process to enter into a group

Answer 7

initiation

Question 8

likely to cause a contagious disease or to be infected with one

Answer 8

pestilential

Question 9

a building or furnace where bodies are incinerated

Answer 9

crematory

Question 10

the quality of, or having to do with God and the divine

Answer 10

divinity

Question 11

a baton carried as a symbol of rank; officers club

Answer 11

truncheon

Question 12

wicked and cruel; worthy of hell (me)

Answer 12

infernal

Question 13

to act or compose something with little to no preparation

Answer 13

improvise

Question 14

trustees or guards chosen from the prisoners

Answer 14

kapos

Question 15

to give into someones wishes; to humor someone

Answer 15

indulgently

Question 16

not emotional or unaffected by emotion

Answer 16

unsentimental

Question 17

air tight

Answer 17

hermetically

Question 18

clarity in thought or speech

Answer 18

lucidity

Question 19

to recognize others right to have different ideas and beliefs

Answer 19

tolerate

Question 20

well known for some undesirable feature or quality

Answer 20

notorious

Question 21

personal communication with the divine

Answer 21

mysticism

Question 22

the forcing out of something or somebody

Answer 22

expulsion

Question 23

imposing harsh or cruel form of domination

Answer 23

oppressive

Question 24

to criticize somebody or question in a forceful aggressive way

Answer 24

harangue

Question 25

something that indicates an atmosphere or mood

Answer 25

barometer

Question 26

people unable to care for themselves due to weakness or illness

Answer 26

invalids

Question 27

kindness or compassion for others

Answer 27

humanity

Question 28

occurring at night

Answer 28

nocturnal

Question 29

extremely confused

Answer 29

bewildered

Question 30

causing a liquid to thicken or solidify

Answer 30

congeal

Question 31

in a continuing or persisting way

Answer 31

unremittingly

Question 32

large vehicles for transporting goods by road

Answer 32

lorries

Question 33

somebody who supports a system of government characterized by dictatorship

Answer 33

fascist

Question 34

an area of a city lived in by a minority group often times with poor conditions

Answer 34

ghetto

Question 35

extremely repugnant or offensive

Answer 35

abominable

Question 36

uninteresting or boring

Answer 36

monotonous

Question 37

extreme anxiety or emotional torment

Answer 37

anguish

Question 38

somebody who has been or is waiting to be deported

Answer 38

deportee

Question 39

somebody who is regarded as being extremely knowledgeable and wise

Answer 39

sage

Question 40

devoutly religious

Answer 40

pious

Question 41

Describe Moshe the Beadle

Answer 41

He is a foreign Jew who is deeply religious. He studies the Kabbalah with Elie at night and asks him why he weeps in the temple.

Question 42

How old is Elie at the end of 1941?

Answer 42

12

Question 43

Describe Elie's family (who is in it?)

Answer 43

Elie's father is a business owner and well-respected in the community. He has a younger sister Tzipora and two older sisters, Bea and Hilda

Question 44

Explain how Moshe has changed

Answer 44

Moshe was expelled for being a foreign Jew. He faked death and came back to Sighet. He used to sing and have tremendous joy but all the joy left him after seeing the children being killed.

Question 45

Where does Elie's father refuse to request permits to despite Elie's requests?

Answer 45

palestine

Question 46

What was the bad news that Elie had to tell the people of the ghetto communities?

Answer 46

the ghetto would be liquidated

Question 47

Whom does Elie first begin to hate and why?

Answer 47

Hungarian police

Question 48

what are the collection or oral jewish stories elie studies by day?

Answer 48

talmud

Question 49

why was moishe the beadle expelled from sighet?

Answer 49

he was a foreign jew

Question 50

where were the jews forced to wait a whole day prior to deportation?

Answer 50

the synogague

Question 51

where doe elie first arrive (the biggest concentration camp)

Answer 51

auschwitz

Question 52

number elie gets tattooed on him

Answer 52

A-7713

Question 53

The Jews of the Kingdom of Judah were held captive in the city of Babylonia.

Answer 53

capture of babylon

Question 54

Wiping lambs blood would save them at Passover.

Answer 54

angel of death

Question 55

Country Jews were able to emigrate to leading up to and during World War II.

Answer 55

palestine

Question 56

The Angel of Death according to the Buna inmates.

Answer 56

Dr Mengele

Question 57

Figure from the Bible who continues to have faith in God although he is constantly tested

Answer 57

Job

Question 58

what instrument does juliek play?

Answer 58

violin

Question 59

why did elie get whipped

Answer 59

because he walked into idek with a polish girl

Question 60

which holiday did elie refuse to celebrate

Answer 60

Yom Kippur

Question 61

elies dad gift to him when he thought he was going to die

Answer 61

a knife and spoon

Question 62

on the march, Rabbi Eliahou loses his ....

Answer 62

son

Question 63

what is juliek playing on the violin

Answer 63

beethoven

Question 64

the disease elies father had

Answer 64

dysentery

Question 65

Elie's father's last words

Answer 65

Eliezer...

Question 66

what did elie see in the mirror following his captivity?

Answer 66

corpse

Question 67

jewish prayer for the dead

Answer 67

Kaddish

Question 68

order of where elie went

Answer 68

sighet --> birkenau --> auschwitz--> buna --> buchenwald