Characters
The narrator of Night
What is Elie Wiezel?
Define a basic human right that is violated in the memoir and provide an example showing that violation.
What is ghettos?
(Answers may vary)
Define the word holocaust.
What is the destruction or slaughter on a mass scale.
Where does the memoir begin (city/setting)?
What is Sighet?
Name Eliezer's father
Shlomo
Define human rights violation.
To deny, ignore or abuse someone's rights, freedoms, and dignity.
Define Genocide.
What is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, or religious group?
What does the word barracks mean in the context of the camps?
What are the sleeping quarters where the Jews sleep?
Identify two fellow prisoners Eliezer meets who significantly influence his experience and explain one way each influences him.
Who is Juliek and Akiba Drumer?
List (3) ways the Germans dehumanized the Jews.
Shaved their heads, tattooed numbers on their arms, stripped them of their clothes, made them run naked, starved them, made them live in ghettos, etc.
Define Liberation.
What is the act of setting someone or something free from imprisonment, slavery, oppression, or confinement?
What is the first camp that Eliezer and his family arrive at, and what are his first thoughts?
What is Birkenau?
Describe the role of Moishe the Beadle and why his warnings are important to the narrative.
Who is the man who tried to warn the people of Sighet about the impending doom approaching?
Name (3) of the ways the Germans would dispose of the Jews.
Gas chambers, Burning them, Shooting them, Beating them
Define Deportation.
What is the formal, lawful process by which a government expels a non-citizen (alien) from its territory?
Explain what and how the selection process works.
What is the process by which Dr. Mengele and the SS officers separate the weak from the stronger?
Name each of Elie' sisters and the survivors.
Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora
Hilda and Bea survived
Explain how the treatment of prisoners in the camps conflicts with the concept of human dignity.
Answers may vary
Define Anti-Semitism.
What is hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people?
Name two themes from the novel.
Survival/Life
Lack of Humanity
Loss of Identity
Loyalty to God/Lack of Faith in God
Family
Dignity/Lack of Dignity