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Literary Devices
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.
What is Moshe the Beadle?
100
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie's father?
100

Hostile behavior toward Jews just because of their Jewish culture and traditions. This can include stereotyped views or teachings about the supposed inferiority of Jews.

What is Anti-Semitism?

100

The literary device in the following sentence: “Suddenly his eyes would become blank, nothing but two open wounds, two pits of terror.”

What is metaphor?

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

When someone makes a distinction, (whether intentional or not), based on a characteristic, or perceived characteristic that ends up harming or disadvantaging an individual or group.

What discrimination?

200

The literary device in the following sentence: "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal."

What is Foreshadowing?

BONUS: Also Dramatic Irony

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
He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his ous "selections" and horrific experiments.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
300

A learned skill that allows people to recognize and deeply listen to other people’s stories or experiences, and connect them to common understandings and emotions

What is empathy?

300

The literary device in the following sentence: "Jealousy devoured us, consumed us."

What is personification. 

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

The study of Jewish mysticism.

What is Kabbalah?

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

The intentional attempt to completely erase or destroy a group of people through structural oppression and/or open acts of physical violence.

What is Genocide?

400

The literary device in the following sentence: "'They think I'm mad,' he whispered, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes."

What is simile?

BONUS: Also dialogue

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

The age that Elie is when Night begins.

12 years old (in 1941)

BONUS: Wiesel was 15 years old when the Nazis deported him and his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau (in 1944).

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

Being honest; consistently upholding strong moral and ethical principles and values, even when know is watching or it would be profitable/advantageous to behave otherwise.

What is integrity?

500

The meaning of the following metaphor: "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."

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