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Sighet
How were the prisoners identified in the camps?
By tattoos of numbers on their arm.
Got deported in Chapter 1 and warned the Jews of Sighet of what was to come.
Moshe the Beadle
The fire in Chapter 2 is an example of what literary term.
Foreshadowing
What age did Elie say he was when they first got to Birkenau?
18
Where the Jews were made to stay prior to being deported. There was a large one and a small one in their town.
Ghettos
What do liberated prisoners think about once they are freed?
Food
She screamed about seeing a fire on the train in Chapter 2.
Mrs. Schachter
This is perhaps the main theme of the books: Elie's struggle to maintain what during the Holocaust?
His faith in God
During the marches after Buna, what does Elie say was the only thing that kept him from giving up?
His father
The name of the concentration camp where Elie was taken first.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Why does Elie decide not to fast for Yom Kippur?
He is already starving/ he is struggling with his faith in God
He got trampled to death during the march.
Zalman
This theme is discussed/illustrated many times throughout the book especially between Elie and his father and Rabbi Eliahou and his son.
Father/son bonds
Who beat Elie for walking in on him with a girl?
Idek
The last concentration camp that Elie went to.
Buchenwald
What happened to those who chose to stay in the infirmary instead of evacuate with the rest of the camp?
They were freed
He died at the end of Chapter 8.
Shlomo (Elie's dad)
What is the vision of fire in Chapter two symbolize?
Destruction and death
What word means ill-feeling or hatred of Jews?
Anti-semitism
This was the camp where Elie worked in and electrical factory. It was also bombed during the air raid.
Buna
Why did Elie get away with not getting his tooth removed at first?
He said he was sick
Rabbi Eliahou
How does Elie Wiesel portray the theme of “dehumanization” in Night?
Through the physical and emotional abuse the prisoners endure.
Who is Elie's relative looking for his family?
Stein