Wednesday, 2/10: Vocabulary, Vladek, Perfect?!

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“Vocabulary Practice, 2/10.” (15p)
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  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. I didn’t like his ____(ion) that I wasn’t good enough to make the team.
  6. He was a ______ opponent, and very tough to outwit.
  7. When the poor but honest boy asked the beautiful princess to marry him, she declined _____(ily), saying, “As if…”
  8. The old photographs were all ______(ed) to the attic because nobody looked at them any more.
  9. Jean is very _____ about her silverware; she won’t eat at that restaurant because she thinks the forks aren’t clean enough.
  10. He tried to _____ himself into the “cool crowd” by hanging around A LOT.
  11. pigs : sloppy :: cats : ______ (1 + 1 bonus)
  12. (2) He fooled his pursuers with a _______ trick that he ______(ed) on the spot.
  13. This word’s roots mean “to bend/lean inward.” ______
  14. This word’s root comes from the name of the Goddess of Love. _______

 

Vladek.

Whom do you side with in the Vladek/Mala conflict? Why?

  1. What makes Artie shrink down again on p47?
  2. What is a kapo?
  3. What is a barrack?
  4. What was an Appel?
  5. What was a Selektion?
  6. (quote) Why does the tin shop foreman, Yidl, dislike Vladek?
  7. How does Vladek win him over?
  8. How does Vladek get Anja’s kapo to stop mistreating her?
  9. Vladek’s first job as a tin man was working on the roofs at Birkenau. What was his second job as a tin man at Auschwitz?
  10. What does Vladek’s last quote on p70 mean?