INTERNATIONAL BOOK SHARING PROJECT
A Program Of The American Friends Of The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum
Night Section One
Pages 1-20
1. Describe Moshe the Beadle.
2. Describe Elie’s family. How does he describe his father
specifically?
3. What happens to Moshe the Beadle and the other foreign Jews in
1942?
4. In the spring of 1944, emigration permits to Palestine were still
available. Why didn’t Elie’s family leave?
5. On the 7th day of Passover, ELie writes “the race toward death had
begun.” What is happening to the Jews of Sighet to make him say
this?
6. Briefly describe the ghetto for Elie and his relatives.
7. When ELie’s family arrived to the little ghetto, what did they
find there?
8. Describe how Wiesel and all of the others were put on the train
to their final destination.
INTERNATIONAL BOOK SHARING PROJECT
A Program Of The American Friends Of The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum
Night Section Two
Pages 21-43
1. What were some of the events that happened in the crowded cattle
cars?
2. “Men to the Left. Women to the right.” What do these eight little
words mean to Elie?
3. What notorious doctor inspected Elie’s group? What was the
doctor’s motive when he asked the prisoners their age and
occupation?
4. Describe “that night.” What did wreaths of smoke, flames, and
silence describe? Who were the Sonder commandos?
5. “Night” had passed. How had it changed Eliezer?
6. “Work makes you free” – what could this mean at a death camp? Who
were the kapos?
7. Who was Stein? Why didn’t Eliezer’s father remember him? What did
Eliezer say to Stein and why?
INTERNATIONAL BOOK SHARING PROJECT
A Program Of The American Friends Of The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum
Night Section Three
Pages 45-62
1. Did Akiba Drummer’s words comfort any of the prisoners? Why do
you think Eliezer remembered him? Why do you think the Jews
were given numbers? Why were they tattooed on their body?
2. How does Elie describe the head of their tent in Buna?
3. Describe the medical/dental exam done on Elie.
4. What does Elie tell the dentist and what eventually happens to
the dentist?
5. What is the French girl’s story as to why she was in the camp
with Elie?
6. What did Idek do to Elie’s father and how did Elie feel about
it?
7. What happened in the kitchen during the air raid?
8. After witnessing the ghastly hangin of a fellow prisoner, why
does Elie write, “I remember that I found the soup excellent
that evening.”
INTERNATIONAL BOOK SHARING PROJECT
A Program Of The American Friends Of The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum
Night Section Four
Pages 63-80
1. What tip does the head of Elie’s block give to the prisoners
about the selection process?
2. What is the irony of ELie’s “inheritance?”
3. Akiba Drumer becamse a victim of selection. What was Eliezer’s
explanation?
4. Eliezer had an operation on his frostbitten foot. It needed a
fortnight to heal. Elie Weisel used irony as he wrote about this
period as a “healing” period. What happened during this time?
5. What is Hitler’s promise?
6. What was Elie’s father decision regarding the evacuation and was
it the right decision?
7. Why did the head of the block want the block to be cleaned an
hour before evacuation?
INTERNATIONAL BOOK SHARING PROJECT
A Program Of The American Friends Of The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum
Night Section Five
Pages 81-109
1. Why didn’t Elie let himself give in to the pain and allow death
to take him?
2. Contrast what happened between Rabbi Eliahou and his son and what
happened between ELiezer and his father (include pages 100-106).
3. What memory does Elie recall whenever he hears Beethoven and why?
4. What happened after the first three days at Gleiwitz?
5. What almost happened to Elie’s father on the train?
6. “One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out
of his bag.” This experience had an enormous impact on Eliezer.
What future event reminded him or this and why?
7. What was ELie’s father’s fate and how did ELie react?
8. What happened on the dates April 5th and April 10th in Night?