Detail everything you know about them (physical description, personality, etc.):

Moishe the Beadle: he has a very religious jew who is poor and lives in sighet

Elie: a young jew boy who is very into his faith, lives with family in sighet

Elie’s Father: older man, has high hopes for his son.

SETTING:

Detail the time and place the story begins:

When does the story begin? 1941

What year is it at the end of Chapter One? 1944

Where does Elie live? sighet, transylvania 

IN-TEXT QUESTIONS:

Infer the answer from the text (Minimum 1-2 sentences):

Describe where Moishe the Beadle is taken and what happens to him. hes taken to a concentration camp and whitenesses the death and torture of jews

Describe the treatment Moishe the Beadle is given when he returns. people think hes insane and no one believes him

Describe the condition of the synagogue when the Hungarian police brings the Jewish Community there.  dirty and desecrated

LITERARY ELEMENTS:

ALLUSIONS:

The Destruction of the Temple (pg. 1):  a synagogue 

The Cabbala (pg. 4): jewish literature

The Week of Passover (pg. 8): a jewish tradition of fasting  

SIMILIES AND METAPHORS: GIVE FOUR EXAMPLES

a wind of calmness and reassurance blew through their houses (4)

the students liveed burried in their books (4)

there was no longer any joy in his eyes (4)

tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes (5)

IRONY:

"was he going to wipe out a whole people?..." (6)

The celebrating of Passover in their current situation (pg. 8): 

it was nice and sunny, but german troops quickly came in and arrested jews. 

SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

Minimum 4-5 Sentences

Why don’t the Jews listen to the warnings of the danger to come? What explains their ignorant optimism?

the jewish people, like any other spiritual religion, are a people of faith. they believe that the chances of them being harmed in this war is very slim and let that get the best of them. when moshe returns from the camps with a warning of whats to come, no one believes him partly because of the festivities that are abroad, but also that they couldn't imagine that such inhumane people could possibly exist at that time and age.