Characters
Who helped Elie with his religious studies before the deportations?
Who is Moshe the Beadle
How do the Jews of Sighet travel when they are deported?
What is a train?
The comparison using “like” or “as” is called what literary device?
What is a simile?
Which theme is shown when people refuse to believe Moshe’s warning?
What is denial?
Which word best describes someone who is NOT altruistic?
What is selfish?
How would Elie describe his father in the beginning of the memoir?
Who is serious
How many people were packed into each cattle car during the deportation?
What is 80?
“The antechamber of Hell must look like this” is an example of what literary device?
What is a metaphor?
Which theme is emphasized by the execution of the soup thief?
What is dehumanization?
What does the word “credible” most nearly mean?
What is reliable?
Which character survives the initial deportation and returns to warn the Jews of Sighet?
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
How do the prisoners travel to Gleiwitz?
What is running?
In the quote comparing hope to “an injection of morphine,” what two things are being compared?
What are belief in stories and an injection of morphine?
Elie’s decision not to fast on Yom Kippur shows what internal conflict?
What is his struggle with faith?
Why does Wiesel include Moshe the Beadle’s story about the Gestapo?
What is to show how people ignored the truth?
Which character shows kindness and empathy by secretly comforting Elie after a beating?
Who is the young Frenchwoman?
What happens to prisoners who slow down on the march to Gleiwitz?
What is they are shot and trampled?
The repeated phrase “Never shall I forget” is an example of what technique?
What is repetition?
Juliek’s violin most strongly represents which theme?
What is loss of humanity and hope?
Why does Wiesel describe the inmates’ struggle to reach the soup?
What is to build suspense and show extreme hunger?
Whose broken violin symbolizes the broken spirits and hopes of the Jews in the camps?
Who is Juliek?
At which camp does Elie’s foot become infected, leading him to see a doctor?
What is Buna?
Why does Wiesel use repetition in the “Never shall I forget” passage?
What is to show the lasting impact of the horrors he witnessed?
What is one central message of Night regarding bystanders?
What is silence and inaction allow evil to continue?
What is Wiesel’s overall purpose in writing Night?
What is to bear witness and warn future generations?