Read these sentences from the passage.
1. “They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does surnamemean?
A. hinder
B. absolutely
C. last name
D. short story
2. “Nobody ever felt embarrassed by him. Nobody ever felt encumbered by his presence”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does encumbered mean?
A. sadness
B. absolutely
C. written discussion
D.hindered
3. “He was a past master in the art of making himself insignificant, of seeming invisible”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does insignificant mean?
A. trivial
B. last name
C. sadness
D. people expelled
4. “I was twelve. I believed profoundly. During the day I studied that Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does profoundly mean?
A. hindered
B. absolutely
C. restricted
D. written discussion
5. “The train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on Polish territory had been taken in charge by the Gestapo.
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does a deportee mean?
A. written discussion
B. last name
C.people expelled
D. short story
6. “At that time, it was still possible to obtain emigration permits for Palestine.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does emigration mean?
A. leaving an area
B. people expelled
C. written discussion
D. unimportant
7. “With some of my schoolmates, I sat in the Ezra Malik gardens, studying a treatise on the Talmud.
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does treatise mean?
A. restricted
B. absolutely
C. leaving an area
D. written discussion
8. “My father was telling them anecdotes and expounding his own views on the situation.
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does anecdotes means?
A. written discussion
B.short stories
C. last name
D. sadness
9. “At dawn, there was nothing left of this melancholy.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does melancholymean?
A.hinder
B. trivial
C. sadness
D. unimportant
10. “Free from all social constraint, young people gave way openly to instinct, taking advantage of the darkness to flirt in our midst…”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does constraint mean?
A. hold back
B. clear understanding
C. sealed against air
D. necessary supplies
11. “We still had a few provisions left. But we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what do provisions mean?
A. coaxing by flattery
B. clear understanding
C. lacking or empty
D. necessary supplies
12. “The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does hermetically mean?
A. clear understanding
B.sealed against air
C. returning to health
D. coaxing by flattery
13. “The heat, the thirst, the pestilential stench, the suffocating lack of air—these were nothing as compared with these screams which tore us to shreds.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does pestilential mean?
A. eyeglass
B. lacking or empty
C. disease causing
D. clear understanding
14. “In the middle stood the notorious Dr. Mengele…”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does notorious mean?
A. infamous
B. restriction
C. eyeglass
D. empty
15. “…a typical SS officer: a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does devoid mean?
A. restriction
B. infamous
C. eyeglass
D. empty
16. “a typical SS officer: a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does monocle mean?
A. eyeglass
B. disease causing
C. empty
D. necessary supplies
17.“In one ultimate moment of lucidity it seemed to me that we were damned souls…”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does lucidity mean?
A. coax by flattery
B. restriction
C. clear understanding
D. emptiness
18. “You are at Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does convalescent mean?
A. returning to health
B. infamous
C. disease causing
D.restriction
19. “They were all laughing and joking and shouting blandishments at one another for a good part of they way.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does a blandishment mean?
A. coaxing by flattery
B. clear understanding
C. disease causing
D. necessary supplies
20. “Our convoy included a few children ten and twelve years old.”
Based on the way it is used in this sentence, what does convoy mean?
A. boisterous
B.traveling group
C.second of two
D. beat
21. “One day when Idek was seized with one of his fits of frenzy, I got in his way.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does frenzy mean?
A. boisterous
B. to cause pain
C. violent excitement
D. traveling group
22. “This was Franek’s chance to torment my father and to thrash him savagely every day.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does torment mean?
A. boisterous
B.second of two
C. to cause pain
D. to defeat a cause
23. “This was Franek’s change to torment my father and to thrash him savagely every day.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does thrash mean?
A. traveling group
B. to defeat a cause
C. disorderly
D. to beat
24. “I once saw one of the thirteen beating his father because the latter had not made his bed properly.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does latter mean?
A.second of two
B. boisterous
C. traveling group
D. to cause pain
25. “’Bare your heads!’ yelled the head of the camp. His voice was raucous”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does raucous mean?
A. to defeat a cause
B. to cause pain
C. disorderly
D.harsh
26. “The Gestapo, summoned to the spot, suspected sabotage. They found a trail.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does sabotage mean?
A. harsh
B. to defeat a cause
C.second of two
D. disorderly
27. “This day I had ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does lamentation mean?
A. emptiness
B.grief
C. starving
D. passed
28. “In the depths of my heart, I felt a great void.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does void mean?
A.emptiness
B. grief
C. starving
D. passed
29. “A poor, emaciated, dried-up Jew questioned him avidly in a trembling voice…”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does emaciated mean?
A. emptiness
B. grief
C.starving
D. passed
30. “Several days had elapsed.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does elapsed mean?
A. weak
B. passed
C. withdraw groups
D. steady
31. “It was a somewhat feeble argument.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does feeble mean?
A. starving
B. weak
C. empty
D. passed
32. “They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does evacuation mean?
A. steadily
B. emptiness
C. passed
D. withdraw groups
33. “It snowed relentlessly.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does relentlessly mean?
A. starving
B. steadily
C. weak
D. passed
34. “Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does deprive mean?
A. sediment of liquid
B. harmful influence
C. lack of emotion
D.remove, withhold
35. “hhhhhhfdsHe sat up and looked round him, bewildered, stupefied—a bereaved stare.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does bereaved mean?
A.sorrowful
B. remove, withhold
C. vigor, energy
D. left alone
36. “From time to time, the SS officers on motorcycles would go down the length of the column to try and shake us out of our growing apathy.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does apathy mean?
A. energy
B. left alone
C.lack of emotion
D. secret place
37. “His livid face was covered with a layer of frost.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does livid mean?
A. sorrowful
B. remove, withhold
C.colorless
D. left alone
38. “The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in our souls.
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what do dregs mean?
A.sediment of liquid
B. harmful influence
C. sorrowful
D.remove
39. “Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them, sharpening their teeth and nails.
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does vitality mean?
A. secret place
B.remove
C. lack of emotion
D.vigor, energy
40. “He was finished, at the end of his tether.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does tether mean?
A.rope, chain
B. secret place
C. energy
D. lack of emotion
41. “The contagion spread to the other carriages.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does contagion mean?
A. secret place
B.disease carrying
C. lack of emotion
D. rope or chain
42. “A plaintive, beseeching voice caught me in the spine.”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does plaintive mean?
A. sediment of liquid
B. vigor, energy
C.sorrowful
D.lacking emotion
43. “And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like—free at last!”
Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does recesses mean?
A.secret place
B. rope or chain
C. disease carrying
D.remove