WorksheetsNight Chapters 4-5 Reading Check
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 28mins
When Elie is summoned to the dentist to have his gold tooth extracted, how does he manage to escape having the tooth removed?
He gives the dentist his shoes.
He tells the dentist that he is not feeling well.
He threatens to expose the fact that the dentist is keeping the gold himself.
He sobs and tells the dentist he is afraid and the dentist feels pity for him.
A young boy is hanged after the air raid. What is especially disturbing about this incident?
The boy was too young and innocent to die.
Elie's father had to carry the body to the crematorium.
The boy was too light for hanging and did not die right away.
The rest of the camp had to look at him while they ate their dinner.
What does one inmate do during a bombing raid that causes him to be shot?
He sabotages the electrical warehouse.
He runs to the soup caldron because he is starving.
He tries to escape.
He cries, “My curse on Germany!”
What two Jewish holy days are debated amongst the prisoners in Chapter 5?
Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur
Hannukah & Passover
Rosh Hashanah & Passover
Yom Kippur & Hannukah
Why is Elie put in the camp hospital?
He is ill from the beating that Idek gave to him.
He has pneumonia.
His foot swells and they have to operate or he will lose his legs.
He gets food poisoning from moldy bread.
Elie leaves the hospital when the camp is evacuated. What happens to those prisoners who remain behind in the hospital ward?
They are killed by the Germans because they are no longer useful.
They are loaded onto hospital trains and moved to another camp.
They are liberated (freed) by the advancing Russian Army.
The book does not say, but we assume they are left for dead.
Why was the infirmary (hospital) actually better than being in camp?
They was no selection.
No beatings took place.
They had a bed and food.
It wasn't-- they usually were immediately put to death.
"SOME TEN THOUSAND MEN had come to participate in a solemn service, including the Blockälteste, the Kapos, all bureaucrats in the service of Death. 'Blessed be the Almighty…' The voice of the officiating inmate had just become audible. At first I thought it was the wind. 'Blessed be God's name… ' Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm." What type of figurative language is being used from the underlined sentence?
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Idiom
Personification
How did Ellie protest his rebellion towards God on Yom Kippur?
He refused to fast
He refused to pray
He refused to work
"IN THE MORNING, the camp did not look the same. The prisoners showed up in all kinds of strange garb; it looked like a masquerade. We each had put on several garments, one over the other, to better protect ourselves from the cold. Poor clowns, wider than tall, more dead than alive, poor creatures whose ghostly faces peeked out from layers of prisoner's clothes! Poor clowns! I tried to find a very large shoe. In vain. I tore my blanket and wrapped it around my foot. Then I went off to wander through the camp in search of a little more bread and a few potatoes. Some people said we would be going to Czechoslovakia. TWO O'CLOCK in the afternoon. The snow continued to fall heavily. Now the hours were passing quickly. Dusk had fallen. Daylight disappeared into a gray mist. Suddenly the Blockälteste remembered that we had forgotten to clean the block. He commanded four prisoners to mop the floor…One hour before leaving camp! Why? For whom? "For the liberating army," he told us. "Let them know that here lived men and not pigs." So we were men after all? The block was cleaned from top to bottom." What can you infer based on the former text?
The Germans were extremely disorganized
The Germans were losing the war
Blockälteste wanted to befriend the Jewish prisoners
Blockälteste didn't get enough sleep
The Jews were celebrating Yom Kippur
