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100
The name of the town in which Elie and his family lived in Transylvania.
What is Sighet?
100

The name of Elie's youngest sister.

Who is Tsipora?

100

In Night, numbers replacing names and the cattle cars symbolize this larger idea which is enforced by the Nazis towards the Jewish community.

What is dehumanization?

100
This is (1) what Elie prevented the SS from extracting, and (2)WHO got it eventually.
What is gold crown and Franek?
100

A state of extreme poverty

What is penury?

200
Where the Jews were made to stay prior to being deported. There was a large one and a small one in their town.
What is the ghetto?
200
He helped Elie with his "mystical" studies (although his father told him not to bother with them).
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
200
This term refers to the "systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group"?
What is genocide?
200

This is how Elie rebels against God during Yom Kippur.

What is refusing to fast?

200

An official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority

What is edict?

300
The name of the concentration camp where Elie was taken first.
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau?
300
He played Beethoven on his violin before he died.
Who is Juliek?
300

Night is best classified as this type of text

What is memoir?

300

This early event establishes dramatic irony by revealing the danger the Jewish community refuses to believe.

What is Moishe's warning after escaping mass execution?

300

A prisoner placed in charge of other inmates, illustrating how the Nazis corrupted victims into enforcers

Prisoner functionaries (kapo, lageralateste, Blockälteste, etc.)

400
This was the camp where Elie worked in and electrical factory. It was also bombed during the air raid.
What is Buna?
400

He whipped Elie 25 times for having caught him with a girl.

Who is Idek?

400

This term is when a contrast is created to draw attention to an idea. BONUS: Name and define a specific type of such a contrast


What is juxtaposition? BONUS: antithesis or character foil

400

This is the reason the soup "tasted like corpses" on one particular night.

What is the hanging of the pipel?

400

This is what Elie wants to learn from his "teacher", but his father advised against it.

What is Kabbalah or Zohar?

500

The location (1) wherein prisoners are forced brutally to march as fast as possible through the snow to reach this location (2)

Where is Buna to Gleiwitz?

500

The "Angel of Death" who conducted the selections and sent prisoners either left or right.

Who is Dr. Mengele?

500

This term refers to an irrational hatred of a person, group, or race based upon a preconceived opinion or judgement.

What is prejudice?

500

This moment contributes to Elie's internal struggle with loyalty, ultimately leaving him to deny a morally disturbing emotion within himself 

What is the realization that Rabbi Eliahou's son left his father for dead?

500

A word to describe the German man who threw bread or the Parisian woman who threw coins to the children?

What is apathetic, indifferent, sickly entertained (Answers may vary)?