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Elie Wiesel
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100
The place where all Jews (including Elie and his family) were forced to live before being sent to concentration camps
What is the Ghetto?
100

He tutors Elie.

Who is Moshe the Beadle?

100
Elie Wiesel's Night shows that it can diminish and even fail when faced with unspeakable horror and suffering.
What is faith?
100
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie's father?
100

Town that Elie is from originally.

What is Sighet, Transylvania?

200
The largest and best known concentration camp where Elie and his family were first sent
What is Auschwitz?
200
The reason Elie is sent to the infirmary.
What is an infected foot?
200

This necessity of life tests the thoughts of most prisoners and their bellies.

What is food?

200
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
200

Elie's inheritance from his father.

What is a spoon and knife?

300
The reason Elie is sent to the dentist
What is his gold crown?
300
Elie's religious realization on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
What is lost his faith in God?
300
This instinct compels some of the prisoners to fight even their own family members for food and other resources.
What is survival?
300
He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his ous "selections" and horrific experiments.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
300

Elie sees this in the mirror at the end of the book. 

What is a corpse? 

400
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire?
400

The study of Jewish mysticism.

What is Kabbalah?

400

It can help people through difficult times.

What is faith?

400
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?
400

"We were withered trees in the heart of the desert" is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a metaphor?

500
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
500

The significant event that happened to Elie one day at the factory. 

What is finding Idek with a Polish woman & being punished?

500

Many prisoners face this type of conflict in their struggle to survive in such dehumanizing and horrible conditions.

What is character v. society?

500
The violinist who plays one last concerto before dying.
Who is Juliek?
500

Moshe the Beadle escaped death by doing this.

What is playing dead?