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