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Chapters Three and Four
“Life
in Birkenau”
1. Why did the guards send the
men in one direction and the
women in another?
“Life
in Birkenau”
2. Why did Elie lie about his
age?
“Life
in Birkenau”
3. What was the selection
process?
“Life
in Birkenau”
4. What actions aimed to
degrade and humiliate the
prisoners?
“Life
in Birkenau”
5. Who was Stein? Why did Elie
lie to him?
“Life
in Birkenau”
6. What changes in Elie are
evident in this chapter?
“Struggling for Survival”
1. How did Buna compare and
contrast with Auschwitz II?
“Struggling for Survival”
2. What was Elie’s main condition
regarding his work unit? What
does that say about him?
“Struggling for Survival”
3. Why was an orchestra present?
“Struggling for Survival”
4. Explain the information about
Elie’s teeth.
“Struggling for Survival”
5. What are the effects of the
passages about the French
woman?
“Struggling for Survival”
6. In what sense did life in the
camp begin to dehumanize Elie?
“Struggling for Survival”
7. How and why did an outburst
of laughter get Elie in trouble?
“Struggling for Survival”
8. How do the hangings near the
end of the chapter affect the
readers? How did they affect
Elie?
“The God Question”
1. Why was it natural for the man
behind Elie to ask where God
was?
“The God Question”
2. How might someone who was
not Jewish, perhaps not religious
in any way, pose the same
question?
“The God Question”
3. How did Elie’s experiences in
the camps belie all of his early
assumptions about his faith?
“The God Question”
4. Look at the cover of the April 8,
1966 cover of Time magazine.
Why did the editors decide to use
that cover for the issue?
“The God Question”
5. What are the ideas of the
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche?
What did he say about God?
“The God Question”
6. If you were a friend of 15-yearold Elie as he struggled with these
complex ideas, what would you
tell him?