Night Study Questions and Vocabulary



Night Study Questions and Vocabulary

As we read, you will be required to answer these questions and define these vocabulary for homework (specific tasks will be assigned in class.) Please answer your questions on a separate sheet of paper and make sure you keep this sheet with it in your binder/folder.

Chapter 1: Pages 1-20

Vocabulary –

Synagogue

Cabbala

Anti-Semitic

Ghetto

Premonition

Deportation

Study Questions:

1.) How does Eliezer describe his father?

2.) How do they spend their evenings?

3.) Who is Mosche the Beadle? Why did Eliezer spend a lot of time with him?

4.) What is Mosche’s story of the Gestapo? How did the town react to the story?

5.) What were the Jews’ first impressions of the Germans? The ghettos?

6.) What was the outcome of the council meeting?

7.) Describe in detail the deportation and the Jews’ reactions to it.

8.) On what day of the week was Eliezer’s family expelled?

9.) Who offers to help Eliezer’s family?

Chapter 2 – Pages 21-26

Vocabulary –

Monotonous

Convoy

Hermetically

Pestilence

Stench

Abominable

Study Questions:

1.) What threat did the Germans use in the event that there were Jews missing?

2.) What caused Madame Schachter to lose her mind? What does she keep yelling?

3.) How do the others react to Madame Schachter?

4.) What do the two men sent to fetch water tell the people?

Chapter 3 – Pages 27-44

Vocabulary –

Hysterical

Crematories

Lucidity

Compulsory

Leprous

Study Questions:

1.) What were the ditches used for?

2.) What happened when Eliezer and his father approached the ditch?

3.) “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.” Why might this be one of the most significant passages in the book?

4.) Describe why the men begin weeping and praying. Does Wiesel join in? Why or why not?

5.) Describe the “process” that Wiesel and the other new arrivals go through that first night and day.

6.) What choice did the SS (Angel of Death) make clear to the prisoners?

7.) “Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight short, simple words.” What painful, life-changing meaning do these words have for Wiesel?

8.) Why does the gypsy strike Wiesel’s father and how does Wiesel react when this happens?

9.) What is Wiesel’s number and where does he “wear” it?

10.) How long are Wiesel and his father in Auschwitz and what do they do there?

Chapter 4 – Pages 45-62

Vocabulary –

Assassin

Defiance

Ration

Gallows

Pipel

Sanctity

Reprieve

Study Questions:

1.) Why are some of the children treated so well by the Germans?

2.) What kind of music are the Jewish musicians forbidden to play and why?

3.) What is Eliezer’s job at Buna?

4.) Why is Eliezer summoned to the dentist?

5.) Describe how Eliezer feels as he watches Idek beat his father.

6.) Why does Eliezer try to teach his father to march in step?

7.) What does Franek want from Eliezer and how does he get it?

8.) Why is Eliezer whipped?

9.) Why are the prisoners unafraid and joyful during the air-raid?

10.) Why does Eliezer say “I found the soup excellent that evening” after the first hanging?

11.) And why does he say, “the soup tasted of corpses” the night after the hanging described on pages 61-62?

Chapter 5 – Pages 63-80

Vocabulary –

Benediction

Lamentation

Derision

Dysentery

Fortnight

Evacuation

Afflicted

Study Questions:

1.) How have Eliezer’s feelings toward God and Jewish holidays changed?

2.) What is the New Year’s “gift” from the SS?

3.) What advice does the head of Eliezer’s block give the men to get through the selection?

4.) What is “the inheritance” Eliezer refers to?

5.) Akiba Drumer is described earlier in the book as deeply religious and deeply faithful. What has happened to him?

6.) Why is Eliezer put in the hospital? What is he afraid will happen to him there?

7.) Why is the camp being evacuated?

8.) Eliezer and his father have a choice. What is it? What do they choose?

9.) Why does Eliezer describe his fellow prisoners as “mountebanks” and “buffoons”?

10.) What absurd order does the head of the block give just before the prisoners leave?

Chapter 6 – Pages 81-92

Vocabulary –

fatigue

corpse

prophet

apathy

embarkation

Study Questions:

1.) How do the prisoners mange to go on, as weak as they are, to run for miles and miles, in deep snow? How many miles do they cover?

2.) What happens to Zalman?

3.)Why does Eliezer’s father wake him at the brick factory?

4.) When Rabbi Eliahou comes looking for his son, what does Eliezer remember about him?

5.) What is Eliezer’s prayer?

6.) Describe what it is like in the barracks at Gleiwitz.

7.) What touching, memorable thing does Juliek do in the barracks the night before he dies?

8.) How many days do they spend at Gleiwitz?

9.) Describe the “spectacle” that makes the SS men laugh.

10.) How many men to a cattle car this time?

Chapter 7 – Pages 93-98

Vocabulary-

Indifference

Contagion

Destination

Avidly

Study Questions:

1.) Describe what happens at each stop during the ten days of traveling by train.

2.)What happens when a workman throws bread into the wagon?

3.)What nightmarish thing happens on the last day on the train?

4.) How did Eliezer save his father from the SS?

Chapter 8 – Pages 99-106

Vocabulary –

Hillock

Cauldron

Tremors

Truncheon

Summons

Beseeching

Spasmodically

Study Questions:

1.) How do the prisoners feel when they see the chimney of the crematory at Buchenwald?

2.) Why does Eliezer become enraged at his father?

3.) What does Eliezer do for his father that “probably brought him more satisfaction than I had done during my whole childhood”?

4.) Why are some of the men so abrasive to Eliezer’s father?

5.) What advice does the head of the block give Eliezer concerning his father?

6.) How does Eliezer’s father die? How does Eliezer react to this?

Chapter 9 – Pages 107-109

Vocabulary –

Upheaval

Liquidate

Resistance

Revenge

Liberation

Study Questions:

1.) What is Eliezer’s life like from January 29th to April 11th?

2.) What happens on April 10th?

3.) What does Eliezer say about revenge?

4.) What impact did looking in the mirror have on Eliezer?

5.) Why do you think this memoir is titled Night?

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