Characters
Literary Techniques
Plot #1
Settings
Key Terms
100

The narrator of Night and the memoir's protagonist.

Elie Wiesel

100

Mrs. Schacter's visions of fire while on the cattle cars is an example  of _______________ .

foreshadowing

100

Who does Elie say he sees hanging from the gallows at the end of chapter 4?

God

100

The setting of chapter 1, Elie's hometown. 

Sighet

100

Violently steal from; loot

Pillage

200

"A well-respected and unsentimental man"

Shlomo Wiesel, Elie's father. 

200

"Remorse began to gnaw at me" is an example of...

Personification

200

What does Elie do after the Gypsy slaps his father?

Nothing

200

This place, to the west of Sighet, is invaded first. Even though the Jews of Sighet hear news of Anti-Semitic attacks, they refuse to leave.

Budapest, Hungary

200

This term means prejudice against Jewish people

Anti-Semitism

300

"Angel of Death" who leads selections at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Dr. Josef Mengele

300

"The dentist, a Jew from Czechoslovakia, had a face not unlike a death mask" is an example of...

Simile

300

Elie's friend and Kabbalah teacher.

Moishe the Beadle

300

Elie is assigned to this work Kommando.

Electrical warehouse

300

This terms refers to the work groups prisoners get assigned to.

Kommando

400

The Kapo of the electrical Kommando who is prone to fits of violence. 

Idek

400

When Elie tells the story of the French woman who revealed she was actually Jewish and that she risked her safety to help him, he is using what literary technique?

Flashforward

400

These are held publicly in the center of the camp in order to send a message to all of the other prisoners that this could happen to anyone.

Hangings

400

Location of the hangings at Buna.

Appelplatz, or courtyard

400

The people are the head of the work groups in Buna.

Kapos

500

Beats Elie's father in order to get Elie's gold tooth.

Franek

500

When the Jewish prisoners recite Kaddish (the prayer for the dead) for themselves, it is an example of _____________.

Irony

500

Identify Elie's new "name" at Auschwitz.

A-7713

500

Name all THREE camps Elie is in during chapters 3 and 4.

Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna

500

Mystical Jewish teaching. Elie's wants to study this. Akiba Drumer often talks of this in the camp. 

Kabbalah

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