People
He is the author of Night
Who is Elie Wiesel?
He said,
“Look, take this knife. I don’t need it any longer. It might be useful to you. And take this spoon as well. Don’t sell them.”
Who is Elie's father?
This literary term is shown when Elie describes the camp during the air sirens “within a few minutes, the camp looked like an abandoned ship.”
What is a simile?
These are the 5 basic elements of a story
Plot, conflict, setting, characterization, and theme
Elie has an operation on this.
What is his foot?
He is hung and afterwards Elie said that the soup tasted like "corpses." Name the "he" and explain why Elie said that about the soup.
Who is the pipel?
Elie writes, "When I awoke at daybreak, I saw Juliek facing me, hunched over, dead" (Wiesel 95). Identify what was laying next to Juliek "trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse."
What is Juliek's violin?
When Madam Schachter repeatedly screams that she sees a fire (in the cattle car) and when they arrive at Auschwitz they see the flames from the chimney and smell the burning flesh, this literary term is used as a forecast of events.
What is foreshadowing?
List 2 types of conflict found in Night
Elie v. Nazis (Man v. Man)
Elie v. His Faith (Man v. Self)
At the end of the memoir, Elie’s father keeps asking for this, but Elie can’t give it to him because of the dysentery.
What is water?
He gave Elie 25 lashings of the whip. Name the "he" and explain why Elie was whipped.
Who is Idek?
(Elie caught him with a young Polish girl.)
"Jews, listen to me! That's all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!" he kept shouting in synagogue, between the prayer at dusk and the evening prayer."
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
This story, which we read before we started Night, is an allegory for the Holocaust.
What is "Terrible Things"?
(Bonus points: Explain how "Terrible Things" is an allegory.)
Characterize Elie using the following: dynamic, static, flat, and/or round. Be prepared to defend your answer.
What is dynamic and round?
Why? Elie is dynamic because he loses his faith; he is round because he is a complete person with varying emotions and actions; etc.
The prisoners eat this off of each other’s backs.
What is snow?
This person is who Elie compares himself to when he says that he "failed the test." Identify the person and explain the test that Elie is referring to.
Who is Rabbi Eliahu's son and what is abandoning his father?
He said, "Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated. Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selection. Eat! Anything, anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don't last very long around here... "
Who is Stein, Elie's relative?
“Never shall I forget that night. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget those flames. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered me…”
What is repetition? (Bonus for parallelism)
A common theme of Night (hint: consider why Elie wrote this book)
What is the importance of bearing witness to horrific events, the loss of faith in the midst of great suffering, and/or remembering that this happened so that it will never happen again?
A prisoner risks his life (and is shot) when he attempts to crawl out and get this during an air raid.
What is soup?
Zalman is killed in this way when he attempts to go to the bathroom due his stomach ache during the march to the next camp.
What is trampled?
This person says,
“Bite your lip, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on. The day will come, but not now.”
Who is the young French Jewish girl who pretended to be Aryan?
In the novel Night this could symbolize Elie's loss of faith
What is night, the flames, children burning in the pits at Auschwitz, the hanging of the little pipel?
This is the climax, or turning point, of Night.
What is Elie's father dies and Elie gives up?
The term for the Jewish prayer for the dead
What is the Kaddish?