Night
by Elie Wiesel
Review Game
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1. What was the name of
Eliezer’s village?
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Answer:
Sighet, Transylvania
(Romania)
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2. How old was Eliezer
when he was deported
from his village?
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Answer: 14 (nearly 15)
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3. In what year did Hitler
become Chancellor of
Germany?
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Answer:
1933
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4. What event caused
WWII to begin on
September 1, 1939?
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Answer:
German invasion of Poland
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5. Who became Elie’s
spiritual teacher?
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Answer:
Moshe the Beadle
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6. What did Eliezer and
Moshe the Beadle
study?
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Answer:
the cabbala, mysticism
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7. When was Eliezer
liberated from
Buchenwald?
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Answer:
April 10, 1945
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8. At the Wannsee
Conference, Nazi
officials turn over what
plan to the government?
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Answer:
“The Final Solution”
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9. While being deported
in the cattle cars, what
did Madame Schachter
envision?
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Answer:
She cried out, “Fire!” She
imagined the furnaces that
the Jews were to see when
they reached their first
camp.
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10. Identify the
concentration camps in
order from the camp
that “introduced” him to
the horror to the camp
that liberated him.
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Answer:
Birkenau,
Auschwitz,
Buna,
Buchenwald
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11. What number did
Eliezer become so “after
that [he] had no other
name?”
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Answer: A-7713
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12. Juliek told Eliezer: “But
Idek the Kapo, has bouts of
madness now and then,
when it’s best to keep out of
his way.” Eliezer got angry
at his father for not
“keeping out of Idek’s way,”
what did that signify in
Eliezer’s character?
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Answer:
Eliezer had grown
callous from the
suffering he endured in
the concentration camp.
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13. Eliezer had hoped to
keep his gold crown so
that he could trade it for
food. Describe what
leads up to its being
taken & explain what
type of irony this is?
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Answer: Because Franek
had been tormenting
Eliezer’s father, Eliezer
gives up his crown & he
must give up a ration of
bread.
Cosmic irony: Eliezer
believes he had free will.
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14. What risk did the
French girl take when
she was helping Eliezer,
and why was it a risk?
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Answer:
She spoke to him in German.
She had only spoken French;
no one knew she could
speak German. Because she
has false documents, the
Nazis did not think she was a
Jew.
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15. What was Eliezer’s
inheritance?
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Answer:
a knife & a spoon
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16. What aspect of his
life does Eliezer begin to
question throughout his
experience at the
concentration camps?
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Answer:
his faith
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17. Eliezer said: “That
night, the soup tasted of
corpses.” How does this
quote relate to the
execution that he
witnessed?
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Answer:
He lost his faith as he
witnessed the young
boy, “sad-eyed angel”
struggle between life &
death as he was being
hanged.
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18. What literary term is
exemplified by Eliezer’s
statement: “I was a
body. Perhaps less than
that: a starved
stomach?”
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Answer: metaphor
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19. What type of irony
corresponds with
Eliezer’s choice when he
was in the hospital? He
left, and then 2 days
later, the hospital was
liberated.
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Answer:
situational irony.
Neither the audience
nor the reader knows
that those who are left
behind will be freed.
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20. Eliezer felt himself
as “two entities” during
the death march; what
were those two
entities?
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Answer:
his mind/soul and his
physical body
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21. Why did Eliezer feel
ashamed when his
father had been taken to
the crematory?
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Answer:
His father’s last words
were Eliezer’s name,
and Eliezer did not
respond.
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22. What is the last
image that Wiesel uses
to end the novel?
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Answer:
Eliezer looking into his
reflection in the mirror—
seeing a corpse staring
back at him.
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23. In Chapter 2, as the
train approached
Birkenau, 2 men told the
Jews: “Conditions were
good. Families would not
be split up.” Explain why
this is verbal irony.
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Answer: The men know
that the families will be
split up at Birkenau.
They use verbal irony
(deception) to give the
Jews false hope.
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24. What are two
reasons that Schindler’s
List was filmed in black
& white?
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Answer:
to enhance its realism;
to create a tone of
despair
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25. When Commandant
Goeth says, “Today is
history,” what does HE
mean?
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Answer: The Nazis
would eliminate the
Jews, and the Jews’
role in European history
would become a
“rumor.”
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26. How was Schindler
able to “rescue” so
many Jews from the
Plascow labor camp?
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Answer: He bribed the
camp officials so that
these Jews could come
work in his factory.
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Vocabulary
27. A collection of
ancient Jewish teaching
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Answer:
Talmud
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28. A(n) ______ is a
section of a city that is
occupied by a minority
group because of social,
economic, or legal
pressure.
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Answer: ghetto
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29. This 1938 event
describes what
happened when the
Germans burned Jewish
synagogues, as well as
burned and looted
Jewish businesses.
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Answer: Kristallnacht
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30. What are at least
two symbolic meanings
of “night” throughout
the novel?
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Answers:
nightmare,
death,
despair,
hopelessness,
evil
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Vocabulary
31. The systematic and
planned extermination of
an entire national,
political, or ethnic group.
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Answer:
genocide
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Vocabulary
32. completely sealed,
airtight
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Answer:
hermetically
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Vocabulary
33. endlessly,
continuously,
constantly
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Answer:
unremittingly
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Vocabulary
34. To delay
punishment, to give
relief or deliverance
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Answer:
reprieve
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Vocabulary
35. Satisfaction for a
wrong or injury
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Answer:
atonement
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