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

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

Who is Elie's father (Shlomo)?

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What was the reason that Elie gave in the preface for ultimately deciding to rewrite and publish the book?

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

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

What is food?

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His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.

Who is Moishe the Beadle?

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What is the symbolism behind night and darkness in the book?

Bad things tend to happen/night represents a work without God.

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The reason Elie is sent to the dentist
What is his gold crown?
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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

What is the name of the town that Elie is from?

Sighet

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

The study of Jewish mysticism.

What is Kabbalah?

400

Elie faces this type of internal conflict when he has lost all personality traits, and sees himself as a body

What is loss of identity?

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

What are the three main camps that Elie and his father went through?

Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald.

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It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
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The number that was tattooed on Elie's arm.
What is A-7713?
500

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

What is hope vs. death

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

What is the name of the disease that Elie's father died from and many jews suffered with while in the camps?

What is dysentery?