(Assignment 4) Questions chapters 2 & 3

1. Explain, "our eyes were opened, but too late." Where was the train at this point?
2. What was foreshadowed by Madame Schacter's nightmare?
3. What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schacter?
4. Where did the train finally stop?

1. It means that they just realized where they are and it was just a little to late for them. The train was already in a different town, they had no where to go, they couldn't escape.
2. Madame Schacter kept yelling "LOOK AT THE FIRE, LOOK!", but nothing was there.
3. They would smack her until she would shut up.
4. They had arrived in Birkenau.

1. When questioned by the S.S. Officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?
2. What was the first horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved?
3. Explain what Elie meant when he said, "Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever."
4. How did Elie change in a short time?
5. What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?
6. What was the "compulsory formality" at the entrance to all camps?
7. What sort of identification was used on the prisoners?
8. Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?
9. What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?
10. What was Bela Katz forced to do once he was chosen for his strength?

1. He had lied because that's what the guy in the striped shirt told him to do. He had said that if would be better for him.
2. When the truck full of babies and toddlers came and they just dumped them in the fire like if they were trash.
3. He will never forget the picture of the flames and the people burning in there. No matter how much he try he wont because he has lost all his faith.
4. He changed because he saw his father get hit and he didn't defend him.
5. He feels that it is better then Birkenau, so it's like a relief for him.
6. It's where they would shower them with hot water and gas.
7. They would tattoo numbers on them, and its like if they had no name it was just a number.
8. He was being to nice to the Jews.
9. They would get soup and bread once a day.
10. He was to throw his own father in the crematorium.

(Assignment 3) Chapter 1 Night Questions

1. Who is Moishe/Moche the Beadle, describe him.
2. Why did Eliezer cry when he prayed?
3. When Moishe/Moche returned what did he tell?
4. Why didn't people believe him?
5. List the ways the Jewish people of Sighet lost their rights (List 5).
6. What is a Ghetto?
7. Why did citizens resist the truth , even when it was in front of them?
8. Describe the conditions in the train (at the end of the chapter).
   
   

1. He was poor and lived in utter penury. He was an insignificant and invisible man. Physically as awkward as a clown.
2. He really wasn't sure why he would cry while he prayed. something inside him just had the need to cry.
3. He went telling his story about where they took then and what they did. He spoke only of what he had seen.
4. Because people thought that he just wanted pity and for them to feel sorry for him.
5. *They closed the synagogues.

*You couldn't get out of your house

*Yellow star

*Put them in the ghetto

*Curfew

*They couldn't have anything valuable

6. Community only for a specific type of person.

7. They were afraid that Nazi's would go and get them

8. Every cattle car carried 80 people and if any of them would try escaping everybody

in the cattle car would get shot.

Cattle Car Complex (Assignment 3)

The short story I have read is about a guy named Adam Posner. Adam fears of being left alone in the dark, and he also suffers from claustrophobia. When he was leaving from his office he had noticed that he was the last one to leave so then he had to take the elevator alone. That is the worst for Adam because he doesn't like to be left alone and the elevator is very small. Well, while he was in his elevator going down it gets stuck. He starts to panic and he starts thinking that he is back in the days where the whole Nazi and Jewish stuff was going on. He was thinking they had planned everything and he was really in a cattle car. When the security realizes that he is stuck he starts yelling "Are ya all okay down there?", and Adam starts yelling "How can we be? you guys have us stuck in this cage that's made for animals!". Adam starts going ballistics and is thinking stuff that's not really going on. Towards the end they rescue him and get him out.