Night by Elie Weisel Study Guide Questions – Flashcards
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Chapter 1: Describe Mosh the Beadle
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Mosh the Beadle was Elie's spiritual advisor.
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Chapter 1: Why did Eliezer pray and why did he cry when he prayed?
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Eliezer didn't know why he prayed but he felt like something needed to be cried about when he prayed.
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Chapter 1: Upon his return, what story did Mosh tell?
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Mosh told the story of how he watched the German soldiers kill Jews and use babies as shooting targets.
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Chapter 1: Why didn't the people believe Mosh's story?
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They didn't believe Mosh's story because Mosh the Beadle was already odd in their eyes and they felt that he was just trying to recieve pity.
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Chapter 1: Cite examples of how the Jewish citizens of Sighet began to lose their rights.
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The Jews of Sighet lost their homes, rights of wardrobe, and their independence.
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Chapter 1: What is a ghetto?
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A small town with horrible living conditions
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Chapter 1: Why did the citizens resist the truth, even when it was in front of them?
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The Jews wanted to stay hopeful that something good might come.
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Chapter 1: Describe the conditions in the train (at the end of the chapter).
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The train was cramped and unsecure.
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Chapter 2: Where was the train when Elie replied "Our eyes were open, but too late"?
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Kaschau
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Chapter 2: What was forshadowed by Madame Schacter's nightmare?
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The train being set on fire.
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Chapter 2: What did some of the passangers do to quiet Madame Schacter?
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The passangers hit her, gagged her, and tied her up.
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Chapter 2: Where did the train finally stop?
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Auschwitz
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Chapter 3: When questioned by the S.S. Officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?
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He lied because the boys who were too young and the men who were too old would have been cremated.
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Chapter 3: What was the horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved?
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The children in the furnace.
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Chapter 3: Explain what Elie meant when he said "Never will I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever?"
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Elie meant that he had nothing left to pray for or thank God for.
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Chapter 3: How had Elie changed in a short time?
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He had forgotten about his faith
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Chapter 3: What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?
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He hated it.
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Chapter 3: What was the compulsory formality at the entrance to all camps?
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Running, a hot shower, new clothes.
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Chapter 3: What sort of indenification was used on the prisoners?
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Numbers
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Chapter 3: Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from this position?
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He was too kind of to the prisoners.
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Chapter 3: What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?
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Bread and soup
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Chapter 3: What was Bela Katz forced to do once he was chosen for his strength?
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He was forced to cremate his own father.
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Chapter 4: What were the objectives of the medical examinations?
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To gain money and the strong kids and adults
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Chapter 4: How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?
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He pretended to be sick.
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Chapter 5: Why didn't Elie fast on Yom Kippur?
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His father didn't want him to and he had lost his faith anyway.
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Chapter 6: What happened to anyone who could not keep up with the march?
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They were shot or trampled to death.
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Chapter 6: How did Zalman die?
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He was trampled.
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Chapter 6: What horrible relization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi Elahou and his son?
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His son wanted his father to die.
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Chapter 6: What was Juliek's last act?
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Playing Beethoven
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Chapter 6: How did Elie help his father when the selection was made?
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He brought his father into a shed and helped him fall asleep.
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Chapter 7: How did Elie again help his father when they were on the train?
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The Germans were throwing the dead out the train and one German thoughts Elie's father was dead but Elie reasured him he wasn't.
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Chapter 7: Describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.
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A father had a loaf of bread in his shirt and was going to share it with his son but the son killed his father and ate the bread himself.
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Chapter 7: How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived?
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100 people got out of the wagon. They went to Buchenwald.
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Chapter 8: Explain how the father/ son roles had been reversed in the case of Elie and his father.
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Elie played the role as the father while trying to keep him from letting himself die in the cold.
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Chapter 8: Why was Elie's father being beaten?
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He was being too loud while calling Elie to get him water.
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Chapter 8: What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block?
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It was selfish but true. There was nothing left to do for his father.
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Chapter 9: What happened on April 5th?
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Some prisoners was released and never came back.
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Chapter 9: What was the resistance movement? What did they do?
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America fought with Germany and won the battle.
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Chapter 9: What did the prisoners do when they were freed?
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They just wanted food. No revenge. No lost ones.
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Hilda
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Elie's oldest sister who his mother wanted to marry off
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Bea
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Elie's older sister
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Tsipora
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Elie's younger sister
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Moishe the Beadle
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homeless; taken away for being a Foreign Jew; survives almost being killed; tries to warn the people of Sighet, but they ignore him
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Juliek
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plays the violin; lives with Elie in the musician's block; the last thing he played was Beethoven as a song of defiance
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Bela Katz
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strong Jew who was forced to work at the crematorium; had to put his own father on the fire
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Yossi & Tibbi
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Elie's friends in the electrical factory; brothers from Czechoslovakia
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French girl
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Comforted Elie after he was whipped; he later found out she was a Jew passing as a non-Jew
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Schlomo
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Elie's Dad
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Idek
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Guard in the electrical factory; who was caught by Elie having relations with a Polish girl, so he whipped Elie 25 times
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Franek
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Polish guard who decides Elie's father doesn't march correctly, and picks on him. Elie agrees to give him his gold crown to stop picking on his father.
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Akiba Drumer
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Religious man who gives up his faith and then dies
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Zalman
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had a stomach cramp while running in the evacuation and is trampled to death
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Stein of Antwerp
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Elie's relative; married to Reizel; says he can survive as long as he knows she is alive; he dies after he finds out that she and their children are dead
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Maria
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the Weisel family's former maid who offers to hide them in her village
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Rabbi Elihau
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he was too tired to run during the evacuation to Gleiwitz, so his son ran ahead of him and left him behind
