Vocabulary
This is the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and Jewish persecution.
What is the Holocaust?
This person is the protagonist and author of the memoir who documented his experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Who is Eliezer Wiesel?
These transported the Jews to the concentration camps and were a representation of dehumanization.
What are cattle cars?
What are cattle trains?
Elie and his father are told to lie about their ages when they first arrive at the concentration camp for this reason.
What is so they would not be separated and then sent to die?
The SS officers dehumanize the prisoners and strip them of their identity when they do this...
What is give them numbers as names?
This is a process by which a particular group is labeled as less than human, and includes regarding that group as animals or disease.
What is dehumanization?
This person bonds with Elie through religion and tries to warn the Jews of Sighet of the danger that is to come.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
In this forest, Moishe the Beadle witnessed Jews digging their own graves to be shot in and babies being used as shooting targets.
What is the forest of Galicia?
The passengers on the cattle car did this to Madame Schacter to keep her quiet.
What is bound and gagged her?
"Somber", "mournful", "honest" are all examples of this literary element that Wiesel uses throughout the memoir.
What is tone?
This word means to have unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes especially of a hostile nature in regard to a specific group of people.
What is prejudice?
In Chapter 2, this person is extremely hysterical and constantly screams, "Fire, fire!"
Who is Madame Schacter?
These first two ghettos were set up here to contain and control the Jews before their deportation.
What is Sighet?
The following phrase is an example of which type of figurative language? "...a glacial wind lashed us like a whip..."
What is a simile?
When Wiesel describes the police invasion of Sighet saying they raided the Jews' homes, set strict curfews, and forced all Jews to wear yellow stars, this is the first instance of what?
What is dehumanization?
This is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures.
What is euthanasia?
He was an evil German SS officer and physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He performed deadly human experiments on prisoners and helped select victims to be killed in the gas chambers.
Who is Josef Mengele?
Who is Dr. Mengele?
Dr. Mengele performed his deadly human experiments on prisoners at this concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
When the Nazis took over the town of Sighet, the Jews had to do this...
What are gold, jewelry or any valuables?
The memoir's title "Night" is a symbol because...
What is because it represents the darkness in the author's emotions, thoughts and experiences?
This is a violent act motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual's beliefs, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, etc.
What is a hate-crime?
He is a Kapo who beats Wiesel's father because he does not like how he is working.
Who is Idek?
At this concentration camp, Elie saves his father from "selection" by creating a disturbance.
What is Buna?
In chapter 4, Idek forces Elie to give him this valuable.
What is his gold tooth?
In Chapter One, Wiesel's tone is one of sadness marked by this...
What is bitter irony?
What is irony?