Show:
People
Setting
Significance of Holidays?
Life Before Darkness
Important Elements and Events
100
The first character introduced in Night
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
100
The setting of most of Chapter 1
Where is Sighet, Romania?
100
This holiday celebrates the Jewish New Year
What is Rosh Hashanah?
100

Who is Moishe the Beadle and what role does he play in Eliezer’s life?

He is Eliezer’s spiritual mentor who teaches him about Jewish mysticism.

100
Elie learned about this mystical aspect of the Jewish faith from Moishe the Beadle
What is kabbalah?
200
A cultured, unsentimental man
Who is Elie's father?
200
This is the name of the area in which the Jewish people of Sighet were forced to move
What is the ghetto?
200
This holiday celebrates the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt and their escape from slavery
What is Passover?
200

What happens to Moishe the Beadle after he is deported? How do the people in Sighet react?

He witnesses mass killings and escapes to warn the Jews of Sighet, but no one believes him.

200
This was the first thing that occurred after the German's arrived in Sighet
What is the officers were billeted in Jewish people's homes?
300

Three Double Jeopardy: What were the names of Elie's sisters?

What is the number of sisters Elie had? Hilda, Bea and Tzipora

300
The place in Sighet in which the Jewish population gathered immediately before boarding the trains towards concentration camps.
Where is the Synagogue in Sighet?
300

On what day of Passover did the first edict occur?

7th Day of Passover

300

What Jewish holiday is being celebrated when the Germans arrive in Sighet?

Passover

300
After the occupation, these three orders were made to (1) prohibit Jewish people from leaving their residences; (2) forbid Jewish people from owning valuables; and (3) force people to wear the Star of David
What were the Edicts and Decrees?
400
This was the only person who knew where the Jewish people from Sighet were destined when they left the ghetto
Who is the Chief Rabbi, or the president of the Jewish council
400
Chapter 1 in Night takes place during these years
What is 1941-1944?
400
Saturday, or sabbath
What is the day of rest in the Jewish faith?
400

What is the final event in Chapter 1 that marks the beginning of Eliezer’s journey into the Holocaust?

Eliezer and his family are deported from the ghetto in Sighet to Auschwitz.

400
This marked a stage of genocidal preparation, separating the Jewish people from the rest of Sighet
What was the creating of the ghettos?
500
In the book Night, this was the first group of oppressors to Elie and the Jewish community in Sighet
Who were the Hungarian police?
500
This is the name of the forest and region in which Moishe the Beadle was taken when he and all other Jewish people were expelled from Sighet
What is the Galician forest, near Kolmay?
500
This holiday was celebrated for one reason, but the Jewish people of Sighet saw almost the exact opposite thing happen on this holiday
What is Passover?
500

What was the first sign that the Germans were taking control of Sighet?

German soldiers arrived and began issuing anti-Jewish decrees.

500

This is how the Jewish synagogue was described by Elie the day they boarded a cattle-car train for a concentration camp

What is "a large railroad station"?