Night: Questions Chapters 6-7
Answer the following in 4-8 complete sentences on looseleaf, in the Night section of
your binder.
1. During the evacuation, Wiesel speaks with Rabbi Eliahou. Who is the rabbi
looking for, and how does his search affect Elie Wiesel?
2. In the barracks at Gleiwitz, Wiesel meets an old companion. Who is this man, and
what act does he perform? Why is it significant? How does this episode come to
an end?
3. What is the horrible “spectacle” on the trains to Buchenwald? To what does Elie
compare it? What is the irony of the lady’s response (p.100)
4. How does the issue of fathers and sons return in chapter 7? Refer to the fight for
bread in the wagon of the train, and to the episode with Meir Katz?
Night: Questions Chapters 8-9
Answer the following in 4-8 complete sentences on looseleaf, in the Night section of
your binder.
1. How does Elie’s relationship with his father change or develop in Buchenwald?
2. How does his father’s death affect Elie? Have his earlier experiences prepared
him for it?
3. “On April 5th, the wheel of history turned”. What are the main events of the
liberation of the camp?