“Warm Up, 2/10.” Proofread! Try to find and fix ’em all!
“Vocabulary Practice, 2/10.” (15p)
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- I didn’t like his ____(ion) that I wasn’t good enough to make the team.
- He was a ______ opponent, and very tough to outwit.
- When the poor but honest boy asked the beautiful princess to marry him, she declined _____(ily), saying, “As if…”
- The old photographs were all ______(ed) to the attic because nobody looked at them any more.
- Jean is very _____ about her silverware; she won’t eat at that restaurant because she thinks the forks aren’t clean enough.
- He tried to _____ himself into the “cool crowd” by hanging around A LOT.
- pigs : sloppy :: cats : ______ (1 + 1 bonus)
- (2) He fooled his pursuers with a _______ trick that he ______(ed) on the spot.
- This word’s roots mean “to bend/lean inward.” ______
- 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?
- What makes Artie shrink down again on p47?
- What is a kapo?
- What is a barrack?
- What was an Appel?
- What was a Selektion?
- (quote) Why does the tin shop foreman, Yidl, dislike Vladek?
- How does Vladek win him over?
- How does Vladek get Anja’s kapo to stop mistreating her?
- 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?
- What does Vladek’s last quote on p70 mean?