Night by Elie Wiesel Guided Study
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Who was Moche the Beadle?
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A foreign Jew who taught Elie the Bible.
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How do folks feel about Moche?
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He is awkward, a clown, embarrassing.
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Where is Elie from?
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Sighet, Transylvania.
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Name Elie's siblings
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Hilda, Bea, Tzibora.
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Why does Elie pray?
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\"Why does he breathe?\" It is his instinct to pray.
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Why was Moche expelled from Sighet?
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He was a foreign Jew.
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What are the three details of when Moche's was expelled from Sighet?
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Babies were thrown in the air for target practice. He was taken for dead. It took him a year to return to Sighet.
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Why did the Jewish people not believe the possibility of Hitler exterminating them?
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They could not believe that one man was capable of killing so many people in so many countries.
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What did the Jews first think of the Germans arriving in Sighet?
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They seemed nice.
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Name the restrictions placed on the Jews in Sighet.
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Jews were not allowed to leave their houses for 3 days. They would not let them keep their gold or money. They had to wear yellow stars. They were not allowed to go to restaurants, cafes, and Synagogues.
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Why did Elie not have to move out of his house when the ghettos were formed?
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His house was already in the ghetto.
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According to Elie, who ruled the ghetto?
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Illusion (in their minds) that nothing bad would happen to them.
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What is the news from the Jewish council?
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Deportation was starting (1944).
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What is the ghetto like once everyone starts to leave?
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It looks like an empty tomb.
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Once Elie and his family are forced to leave the large ghetto, where do they go?
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A smaller ghetto a mile or two away.
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Once Elie and his family leave the little ghetto, where do they go?
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A synagogue.
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What is so sad about the condition of the synagogue?
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The altar is broken, paintings are town down. It is trashed.
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Once Elie and his family leave the synagogue, what is the mode of transportation to the camps?
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A cattle car.
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Who was Madame Shatner?
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She was a lady who lost her two older boys at the camp. She is the one on the train screaming, saying she sees fire coming from huge smokestacks.
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What happened to Elie's mother?
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She was taken to the gas chambers with his little sister Tzibora as soon as they arrived at Auschwitz.
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What did Elie and his father lie about to the officers?
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They lied about their age; Elie was only 15 and his father was 50, to avoid immediate death.
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Who is Dr. Mengele?
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A German officer who performed horrible experimental tests on the Jews.
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Why did Elie's father wish that he had gone with his mother?
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So he would not have to see all the suffering.
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What choice did the SS officers give the prisoners?
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You could either work or be sent to the crematorium.
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What was the inscription above the gate at Auschwitz?
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\"Work makes you free.\"
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What is A-7713?
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Elie's number that is tattooed on his arm.
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What camp were they in after they left Auschwitz?
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Buna (work camp).
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What did Elie lie about to Stein?
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That his family was all right and that they were alive.
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Who cleaned Elie after his beating and gave him some bread?
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A young French girl.
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Why was a 13-year-old hung at the gallows?
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He was smuggling weapons and got caught.
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What did Akiba Drumer make Elie promise to say for him?
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He made him say the Kabbalah for him.
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What bad decision did Elie make while in the hospital?
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Not to stay in the hospital because the camp was liberated a couple of days after he was in the hospital. He would have been saved if he had stayed.
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What was the only thing that kept Elie from slipping to the side of the road and dying while on the death march?
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There were men behind him pushing him forward and he would have been shot if he had stopped.
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Why was Elie almost thrown off the train?
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He looked like a dead body; his eyes were rolled back in his head.
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What did the men scramble for while on the train?
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A small piece of bread.
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Why did Elie wake up in the middle of the night?
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There was a siren in the night.
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Why did Elie's father want to lie down in the snow during the walk to the other camp?
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He was giving up and wanted to end his suffering.
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Elie woke up one morning and found who or what in his father's bed?
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He found another man who was not his father in his dad's bed.
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What was the last word Elie's father said?
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Elie's name.
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What happened to Elie's father?
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He had dysentery and was sent to the crematorium.
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What did Elie feel when he had learned his father had gone?
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He felt free at last.
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Why did the resistance movement have no trouble in taking over the camp?
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Most of the SS guards fled because they knew the Allies are coming.
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Who were the first liberators to the camp?
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American soldiers.
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What were the prisoners' first acts as free men?
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Jump onto piles of provisions.
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Why did Elie spend two weeks in the hospital after liberation?
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Food poisoning.
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How long had it been since Elie had seen himself in a mirror?
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A year.
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What did Elie see when he looked in the mirror?
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A corpse.
