Write Before You Speak
Through what point of view is the book Night written?
What is a first person perspective or point of view?
Night is a symbol of the darkness and evil of the Holocaust.
True
“Here came the Rabbi…His mere presence among the deportees added a touch of unreality to the scene. It was like page torn from some storybook, from some historical novel about the captivity of Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition (Wiesel 14).”
what is a Simile
How did Elie save his father on the train when the "gravediggers" wanted to throw him off into a field?
He slapped his father until he woke up/he revived him
When the Jews of Sighet are first deported, how many people are on each cattle car?
What is 80
Mrs. Schächter ’s screaming, "fire, fire, I see a fire" is an example of what literary element?
What is a foreshadowing
Idek, the Kapo, treats all of the factory workers at Buna well.
what is False
“The barracks we had been made to go into was very long. In the roof were some blue-tinged skylights. The antechamber of Hell must look like this (Wiesel 32).”
What is a Simile
What happened when a father and son fought over a piece of bread?
The son killed his own father and then the son was killed.
Bonus question: How old was Elie when this happened?
The age that Elie tells the SS officer he is upon arriving at Birkenau.
What is 18?
Bonus: What occupation does Elie tell the officer that he is?
"The night was endless" is an example of what literary element?
Hyperbole
German workers throw bread to the prisoners while they are on the train to Buchenwald.
what is true
“Suddenly his eyes would become blank, nothing but two open wounds, two pits of terror (Wiesel 72).”
Metaphor
How did Elie Wiesel's father die?
He was hit with a club/he was dealt a lethal blow from an officer
How many men get on the cattle car with Elie and his father on the trip to Buchenwald?
What is 100?
Bonus: How many men get off the train at Buchenwald?
A. 12 B. 80 C. 100 D. 120
“Everywhere rooms lay open…An open tomb.” This is an example of what literary device?
What is a metaphor
The prisoners divide the food equally among themselves on the train ride to Buchenwald.
what is false
“We were already accustomed to rumors of this kind [that told the front was drawing nearer to the camp]. It was not the first time a false prophet had foretold to us peace-on-earth…And we often believed them. It was an injection of morphine (Wiesel 76).”
What is metaphor
What was Shlomo's (Elie's father) last word?
Eliezer
What is Elie’s new name at the camp?
What is A-7713
Elie and his father leaving the hospital before it’s liberated is an example of what literary element?
What is irony
In their travels from Buna to Gleiwitz, the prisoners travel over 26.2 miles.
What is true?
“When at last a gray glimmer of light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk upon shoulders, crouched, piled one on top of the other, like a field of dust-covered tombstones in the first light of dawn (Wiesel 93).”
What is a simile
At the end of the novel, what did Elie see when he looked in the mirror?
what is a "A corpse gazed back at him"
Bonus question: What does this say about Elie Wiesel?
The age that Elie is when he reaches Birkenau/Auschwitz.
What is 15?
Bonus: Why does Elie lie about his age?