Night Name______________________________________ Blk
Night – Reading Guide Name ____________________________________
Why did Wiesel write Night? ________________________________________________
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Section 1
Describe Eliezer’s community:
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Who is Moshe the Beadle? _________________________________________________
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Describe some characteristics of Eliezer’s father
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Explain the quotation: “I was saved miraculously to warn you.”
Speaker: ___________________________ When: ______________________________
Meaning/Situation:_______________________________________________________
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Citizens’ reaction: _________________________________________________________
Your reaction: ____________________________________________________________
“The Germans were already in the town, the Fascists were already in power, the verdict had already been pronounced, yet the Jews of Sighet continued to smile.”
Type of irony: ____________________________
Examples of how Jewish citizens of Sighet began to lose their rights:
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What is a ghetto? _________________________________________________________
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Why do you think the citizens resisted the truth, even when it was right in front of them?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“Saturday, the day of rest, was chosen for our expulsion.”
Type of irony: ____________________________
Section 2
Describe conditions in the train:
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“Our eyes were opened, but too late.”
Explain: _________________________________________________________________
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|What was foreshadowed by Madame Schacter’s screams? |Describe passengers’ actions to quiet her: |Elie’s reaction: |
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Where did the train finally stop? _______________________________
Section 3
|Why Elie lies about age/occupation: |First horrifying sight that he disbelieved: |
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“You must never lose faith, even when the sword hangs over your head.”
Internal or external conflict? ________________________________________________
“Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever.”
Explain: _________________________________________________________________
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Ways Elie changed in a short time:
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Identification used on the prisoners: ________________________________________
Why prisoner in charge of Elie’s block is removed from this position: ________________
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|Who is Stein? |What happens to him? |
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Next destination: ________________________________________
Section 4
“The camp looked as though it had suffered an epidemic: empty and dead.”
What is the tone of this sentence? _______________________
Circle the words that help you determine the tone.
Objectives of medical examinations: ________________________________________
Reason Jewish musicians weren’t allowed to play Beethoven: _______________________
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Describe one of Idek’s bouts of madness: _______________________________________
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“I dragged myself to a corner. I ached all over. I felt a cool hand wiping my blood-stained forehead. It was the French girl. She gave me a mournful smile and slipped a bit of bread into my hand.”
What is the tone of this sentence? _______________________
Circle the words that help you determine the tone.
Gold Crown
|How Elie first avoided losing his: |When he refused to give it to Franek: |End result: |
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Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons:
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“Where is God? Where is he?” Describe the circumstances: _______________________
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Why was this hanging different? ____________________________________
Section 5
“We had never understood one another so clearly.”
Explain: ______________________________________________________________
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Why Elie didn’t fast on Yom Kippur: _______________________________________
|Advice Elie was given for Selection: |Father’s action when name written down: |
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Akiba Drumer
|What he asked others to do for him: |Did they do it? |
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Hospital
|Reason for Elie’s operation: |Outcome: |
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Evacuation:
|Reason: |Fate of those who stayed at hospital: |
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Section 6
How Zalman died: ______________________________________________________
“The idea of dying, no longer being, began to fascinate me.”
Explain: _________________________________________________________________
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Describe Rabbi Eliahou:
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What horrible realization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi and his son?
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How does Elie respond to this?_____________________________________________
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“He was playing his whole life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings—his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future.”
Explain this quotation: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.”
Type of figurative language used? ______________________________
What did Elie do to help his father when the selection was made? ___________________
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Section 7
How did Elie help his father on the train ride? ___________________________________
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“Next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son.
I was fifteen years old.”
Explain:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How many got out of the wagon? ______________________________
Where had they arrived? __________________________________
Write a passage from the section containing imagery: ____________________________
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Section 8
“Get up from here! Immediately! You’re killing yourself.”
Explain: _______________________________________________________________
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Explain how father/son roles have been reversed for Elie and his father:
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Reason why father was beaten: _____________________________________________
“His last word was my name. A summons, to which I did not respond.”
Explain:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How does Elie feel after the death of his father? __________________________________
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Section 9
Events of April 5:
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The Resistance Movement
|Who they were: |What they did: |
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First act of prisoners as free men:___________________________________________
“A corpse gazed back at me.”
Explain:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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