Assignment 6: Ch. 4 & 5 Questions

Chapter 4

1. What were the objectives of the medical examinations?
- They were in search for any gold teeth.

2. Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play Beethoven?
- Beethoven music is German.

3. Describe one of Idek's bouts of madness.
- When he was mad, he would get his anger out on which ever person was closer to him by beating them severely.

4. How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?
- He kept telling them he didn't feel good and that he was getting sick.

5. Who did Elie meet on the Paris metro?
- The French Woman who had worked with him in the warehouse.

6. What happened when Elie refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result?
- Franek tormented Elie's father because he didn't know how to march, and he would beat him up real bad. Elie ended up giving Franek his crown.

7. Describe the scene at the soup cauldrons.
- The Jews had been placed in a room where big pots of hot soup were sitting there. There was a man who was going to drink from it, and everybody was looking at him with jealousy. When the bombing began, he died out of no where.

8. During the preliminary ceremonies before hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?
- " This ceremony, will it be over soon? I'm hungry..." They weren't getting fed enough.

9. During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from the others?
- The fact that a boy was getting hung in front of their eyes made it really devastating for them, even though they had seen many hangings before.


Ch. 5


1. Why didn't Elie fast on Yom Kippur?
- He no longer believed in God's silence. Also, his father had forbidden him from doing it.


2. What advice was given to Elie to pass the selection?
- They had told him to run as fast as he could so that they wouldn't be able to see his number.


3. How did Elie's father respond when he had learned that his name had been written down?
- He started giving Elie his valuable possessions since he had felt that his time was running short.


4. What did Akiba Drummer ask for others to do for him? Did they do it?
- He had asked them to gather 10 men and say Kaddish. They never did it.


5. Why was Elie placed in the hospital?
- He had to get in operation on his foot.


6. Why was the camp evacuated? What did Elie learn of the fate of those who stayed behind in the hospital?
- The Russians were on their way to the camp. They had gotten liberated after 2 days of the evacuation.