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Questions are not in order to prevent you from nding the answer and then forgetting it. Questions may
be repeated to see if your opinion changes after other questions. Please stay in order.

Name: ____________

1. Nicknames are given often when someone has a specic physical or character trait. How do you
think Moshe the Beadle got his name? How does it reect his personality?

2. Moshe The Beadle tried to warn people yet no one believed him. Still, now people are denying it
despite all we know. Why do you think people are refusing to believe that this ever happened? How
does Elie Weisel make his story more believable to those who are still denying what is happening?

3. Why do you think Elizer cries when he prays? What drives his faith and prayer?

4. Describe Elizer and his fathers relationship. Does his father support his endeavors?

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4. Do you thing Elizers faith kept him sane. Why do you think he prayed and said the Kaddish if he
doubted G-ds faith. Notice he never doubted his presence he doubted his trust.

5. Do you thing Hitlers cruelty kept faith present because of the want to ght and stay Jewish or do you
think people lost faith because of what they went through.

6. When the lady on the train kept calling re was there really re? What was the re? How did she
know?

7. How do you thing Hitler managed to do this. Was he sane? What is your denition of sane? Do you
think he did this out of power or anger? What other leader do you thing by your denition is insane.

8. What do you think about Elizers mindset during the death camps. Did Elizer have a suitable attitude
towards the event? Do you think the way he responded to diversity was appropriate for the situation?

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9. What is Elizers and his fathers relationship. Did Elizer protect his father and stay with him the whole
time?

10. Why is it important to get different perspectives on events like these. What different perspectivs
could you get. List them and create a interview with responses.

Perspective One

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Perspective 2

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Perspective 3

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11. What is your denition of dehumanization. Do you thing that is a leading factor to the atrocities?
Name some events that have a similar mindset to the Holocaust. How do we prevent dehumanization?

12. Research the African Holocaust. What is the U.S. doing for it. What do you think about their
involvement.
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13. Do people always have a reason no matter how wrong it may be, or do people do things without
intention?

14. Elizer saw a sign reading WARNING DANGER OF DEATH how is that ironic.

15. What was a common reference prisoners where related to. Do you think that the soldiers even saw
the Jews, and others as people. Why do you think they shaved their heads? Use quotations from the
book.

16. How does our society promote dehumanizing, and what should we do about it?

17. There are disputes between political and moral necessities. Is the prevention of dehumanization a
political or moral war. Should the government get involved in moral beliefs.

18. How do we prevent this starting in the classroom. How would you share this around the world so it
would never happen again.

19. Describe the book using one word

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