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What was the biggest reason Moshe the Beadle important to Elie?
What is he instructed him in the mystical aspects of the Jewish faith.
Where is the story set?
What is Sighet, Transylvania.
Madame Schachter’s visions and screaming are examples of what literary term?
What is foreshadowing.
What was Elie’s primary concern as he and his family were herded from the train?
What is to stay with his father.
What was one of the “tricks” Elie uses to survive selection?
What is he gives himself “color” by running and pinching his cheeks
What did Madame Schachter see in her vision?
What is a furnace and flames.
Before Elie's community was deported from Sighet, what happened to them?
What is they were placed into two ghettos.
"Within a few minutes, the camp looked like an abandoned ship" is an example of what literary device?
What is simile
Which of the following deaths had an intense impact on the prisoners?
What is the hanging of the pipel—the young assistant of Dutch Oberkapo
During his time in the concentration and death camps, what does Elie focus on more than anything else?
What is finding food.
After Moshe returned from his deportation how did the community react to him?
What is the community rejected Moshe’s “stories” and went on with life as usual.
After being released, what does Wiesel say he and the other ex-prisoners think about revenge?
What is they didn't think about it all; all they wanted was food.
Wiesel says of Rabbi Eliahou, “He was like one of the old prophets in the stories of the Old Testament”…this reference to the literature of the Hebrew people is an example of:
What is allusion.
What was Elie’s decision about fasting on Yom Kippur? Why did he make that decision?
What is he did not fast as an act of rebellion against God’s silence.
What did Elie dream of when he dreamed of a better world?
What is a world with no bells to regulate life. "The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell" (72).
How old is Elie during the course of the novel?
What is ages 12-15. Elie Wiesel was born September 30, 1928. The novel begins in 1941 -- Wiesel tells us on page 1, "I was 12."
In the camp hospital, Elie’s neighbor remarks that there is only one person/being/group who has kept his/their promises to the Jews. Who is it?
Who is Hitler
The repetition of ideas such as silence, night, and the taste and quality of the soup are examples of ...
What is motif
What is the Kaddish?
What is the Jewish prayer for the dead.
What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou’s son just after the evacuation?
What is the son had been trying to lose his father as the men were all running.
Was Elie Wiesel's father only concerned with his family's safety?
What is no -- he cared very deeply about his community as well and was a very respected, caring, and practical man.
After Elie’s father asks the guard where the lavatory is and is then knocked to the ground by the guard, what does Elie realize?
What is that he has changed dramatically in a very short amount of time because he barely reacts to this horrific act.
Wiesel’s description of the Rabbi struggling to keep up, “his son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering, shuffling, and stumbling” contains and example of
What is alliteration.
Why does Elie say, “No better than Rabbi Eliahou’s son had I withstood the test”?
What is Elie abandoned his father during the alert at Buchenwald.
At the very end of Night, what does Elie see?
A corpse looking back at him from a mirror