Night by Elie Wiesel

1. Night by Elie Wiesel

3. Name two factors that contributed to the Holocaust leading up to WWII.

4. National Indifference • Treaty of Versailles • Anti Semitism • Depression • Hitler’s charisma

5. Describe the invasion of Poland and its significance to the rest of WWII.

6. Radio station • Took only three weeks • Beginning of the war • Blitzkrieg: lightening war

7. Name two methods of killing the Nazi’s adopted prior to adopting the Final Solution.

8. Killing Squads • Euthanasia

9. In what city does this memorial stand? What does it represent? Name two.

10. Berlin • Nuremberg Laws

11. What was Kristallnacht?

12. Pogrom where Nazis burned Jewish temples and businesses. 30,000 Jewish men were deported.

13. Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.

14. irony

15. The march began. The dead stayed in the yard under the snow, like faithful guards assassinated, without burial.

16. simile

17. Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other…Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them.

18. Metaphor

19. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.

20. Personification

21. She [Madame Schachter] continued to scream, breathless, her voice broken by sobs. 'Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!'

22. Foreshadowing

23. What does Elie ask Moshe to teach him? What is Moshe’s advice?

24. Instruct him in the Cabbala • Ask God the right questions but do not expect answers. True questions are answered by your inner self.

25. What is a Kapo and how do they function within the camp and the novel?

26. A head prisoner, gains power • They keep the other prisoners in line • They show the hierarchy of power and the way anti-Semitism was institutionalized and exploited.

27. Describe Elie’s arrival at Auschwitz. Include selection. • Double: who is this person? Angel of Death.

28. Men/women separated. • Stripped, decontaminated, tattooed. • Dr. Mengele

29. What is a pipel? And why was the angel faced pipel hanged?

30. Child who is given favor, probably sexually abused • Kapo and resistance movement

31. What part of his body does Elie describe himself as becoming while in the camp? Why is this significant?

32. A stomach • Dehumanizing • Why not a heart for example?

33. At what moment in the text does Elie lose his faith?

34. Jewish New Year. • States that he is stronger than the Almighty.

35. What is Elie’s father’s inheritance to him?

36. A knife and spoon

37. Name two examples of situational irony in the text.

38. Leaving the ghetto/police officer • Liberation in the hospital • Elie giving up his crown/shoes

39. Name two characters in the text that experienced a physical death. Explain.

40. Zalman • Juliek • Chlomo

41. Name two characters in the text that experienced a spiritual death. Explain.

42. Meir Katz • Akiba Drumer • Elie • Madame Schachter

43. Name one instance of SILENCE in the novel and why it is significant.

44. Elie not crying out when his father is beaten by the kapo shows how he was forced to silence his morals in fear of abuse.

45. What is the significance of NIGHT in the book. Cite one example.

46. First night in Auschwitz. • Begins a time in Elie’s life where he loses all meaning.

47. What facial feature does Wiesel continually describe. Why is this feature significant?

48. Eyes • Windows to the soul

49. What urge does Elie repeatedly say he is defined by? Name one instance in the text.

50. Hunger • After the hanging of the Warsaw youth, the soup tasted delicious.