Vocabulary Maus 2

Question 1

Hooks

Answer 1

A piece of metal curved for hanging things on.

Question 2

Cathartic

Answer 2

That relieves emotional tensions

Question 3

Racket

Answer 3

Loud and unpleasant noise.

Question 4

Anti-Semitic

Answer 4

Discrimination against Jews

Question 5

Freight

Answer 5

Goods transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

Question 6

Congestive Heart Failure

Answer 6

A weakness of the heart that leads to a buildup of fluid in the lungs and surrounding body tissues.

Question 7

Crematorium

Answer 7

A facility used to burn human remains

Question 8

Barn

Answer 8

A large farm building

Question 9

Greedy

Answer 9

Having selfish desires for something, esp. wealth or power.

Question 10

Blocksperre

Answer 10

You must not step out from the room

Question 11

Dachau

Answer 11

A city in Germany, site of a Nazi concentration camp

Question 12

Gypsy

Answer 12

Somebody who speaks Romany and lives by itinerant trade and fortune-telling.

Question 13

Birkenau

Answer 13

A German concentration camp

Question 14

Ravensbruck

Answer 14

A women’s concentration camp during World War II

Question 15

Reich

Answer 15

The former German state, the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945

Question 16

Schnell

Answer 16

German word for “quick”

Question 17

Shvartser

Answer 17

Yiddish derogatory slang for a black person

Question 18

Typhus

Answer 18

An infectious disease responsible of many deaths during wars and famines

Question 19

Yids

Answer 19

German derogatory word term for “Jew”

Question 20

Zyklon B

Answer 20

A deadly insecticide used by the Nazis for killing concentration-camp prisoners.