Assignment 6: Chapter 4 & 5 questions

Chapter 4



1. They checked if they were capable to work, but also to see if they had gold teeth if so the would pull them out.

2. Beethoven was German.

3. If anyone were to cross him while he was angry he would take his anger out on them.

4. He continuously said that he had a fever and that he would return when he was better.

5. A french girl who passed for Aryan, though he was not sure if she was Jew or not.

6. When Elie said that he would not give him his crown, Franek knew that his father could not keep count in his head while marching so every little mistake that Elie's father made he would beat him up. After a while Elie gave in so he let Franek take out his crown with a rusted spoon. A week later Franek was transferred to another camp.

7. All men are sent to a room that have to bowls left with soup. Then a man dares to start drinking it. Everyone is jealous but once the Americans start bombing he dies.

8. "They're expecting trouble." He knew that the Germans were afraid that if 1 Jew did something the rest of them would soon follow.

9. It was very painful to watch two men and a little boy being hanged. The men died quickly but since the little boy was thin he died very slowly.


Chapter 5

1. His father had forbidden him, and also because he no longer accepted God's silence. He swallowed his ration in symbol protesting against him.

2. Run ass if the devil was in your hells, and the most important, don't be afraid." Run so that they wouldn't see his number.

3. He thought that his time alive was coming to an end, therefore he started to give Elie his possessions.

4. He asked that all men gather and say a kaddish for him but they didn't do it.

5. His foot was stating to swell it either had to be amputated or operated on.

6. The Russians were coming.

7. It was liberated 2 days after the evacuation.