Answer the Following As Specifically As Possible and Use Complete Sentences
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Night Study Questions
Answer the following as specifically as possible and use complete sentences.
One (Sighet)
1. Describe Moshe the Beadle in detail. How did others feel about him?
2. Who are the members of Elie's family? What is his family like?
3. Why does Elie cry when he prays?
4. What reason does Moshe give Elie for praying? What does he mean by this?
5. What did Moshe witness when he was shipped to Poland? Why does he want the Jews of
Sighet to know what he saw?
6. How did the German officer treat the Kahn family? Why did the optimists "rejoice"?
Two (train ride)
7. Why did Elie and his group never eat enough to satisfy their hunger?
8. What did they realize, when the train stopped in Kaschau? How did this affect their
feelings or hope for safety?
9. How is Madame Schachter like Moshe the Beadle in what she says and how she is
treated?
Three (Auschwitz)
10. What eight words were spoken that would effect Elie forever?
11. What caused Elie's inability to sleep?
12. Wiesel writes, "Never shall I forget the first night in the camp, which has turned my
life into one long night…" What does it mean for a life to be turned into one long night?
Four (Buna)
13. What happens at first to allow Eliezer to keep his gold crown?
14. How does Elie eventually lose his crown?
15. What does Eliezer mean when he refers to his father as his "weak point"? Why has he
come to view his love for his father as a weakness?
16. When the young boy is hanged, a prisoner asks "Where is God now?" and Eliezer thinks
to himself "He is hanging right there on this gallows…" What does this statement mean? Five
17. Why does Eliezer direct his anger toward God rather than the Germans? What does his
anger say about the depth of his faith ?
18. Why does Eliezer describe himself as afraid of having to wish his father a happy New
Year?
19. What choices are open to Eliezer and his father when the camp is evacuated?
20. What did Elie and his father feel as they stood together after the service? Use a quote
as additional support for your answer.
21. What is a musulman?
22. Describe the selection process.
23. What was the inheritance given to Elie by his father?
24. What reasons does Elie give for Akiba Drumer giving up and accepting death ?
25. Why/How could Elie and the others forget their promise to Akiba ?
26. Why does the patient tell Eliezer "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else." ?
27. Why, from what you have read so far, do you think the title of the book is called Night?
Use situations from the book to support your answer.
Six
28. What strange expression did Elie's father have on his face when Elie woke him up?
Why?
29. What did Juliek do right before he died? Why does he do this?
30. Find two quotes that show how other prisoners had let go of their values, and replaced
them with the need to survive
Seven/Eight
31. What did the boy who was after a scrap of bread do to his father ?
32. What thought entered his mind that made Elie "ashamed forever".
33. Please respond in a short paragraph (4-5 sentences):
What is the relationship between our stories and our identity? To what extent are
we all witnesses to history and messengers to humanity?