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6W4 Exam ALH 3
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10th Grade
02/28/2011

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Who was the main character is the book All Quiet On the Western Front?
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Paul
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How did they describe the day of Paul's death?
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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What were the important themes in All Quiet on the Western Front?
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The brutality of war and the effect of nationalism.
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What did Paul refer to his fellow soldiers as?
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comrades
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What are some symbols in Night?
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yellow star and tatoos
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Who is the author of The Devil's Arithmetic?
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Jane Yolen
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Who is the man character in The Devil's Arithmetic?
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Hannah
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What is the plot of The Devil's Arithmetic?
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The book is about Hannah, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York. During a Passover Seder, Hannah is transported back in time to 1942 Poland, during World War II, where she is sent to a Nazi concentration camp and learns the importance of knowing about the past.
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Whose place does Hannah take when it is time to go to the gas chamber?
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Rivka's
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Who turns out to be Hannah's aunt?
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Rivka
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Who is the main character in Night?
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Eliezer
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Akiba Drumer
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A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp
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Madame Schächter
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A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer. She kept screaming that she saw furnaces.
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Juliek
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A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz.
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Idek
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Eliezer’s Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna
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Franek
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Eliezer’s foreman at Buna. Franek notices Eliezer’s gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon.
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Rabbi Eliahou
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A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father.
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Zalman
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One of Eliezer’s fellow prisoners. Zalman is trampled to death during the run to Gleiwitz.
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Meir Katz
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Eliezer’s father’s friend from Buna. In the cattle car to Buchenwald, Katz saves Eliezer’s life from an unidentified assailant.
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Stein
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Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium, whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz. Trying to bolster his spirit, Eliezer lies to Stein and tells him that his family is still alive and healthy.
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Who are Eliezer's sisters?
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Hilda-oldest, Béa-middle sister, Tzipora-youngest sister
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