NIGHT
Answer each of the following sentences in a complete paragraph.
Be sure to use specific details from the story to support your answers.
1. Night focuses on a single year in Eliezer’s life. Identify some of the internal and external conflicts
he faced that year.
2. In the next to the last sentence in the book, Eliezer says that when he looked in a mirror after
liberation, he saw a corpse gazing back at him. He ends the book by stating, “The look in his eyes,
as they stared into mine, has never left me.” What does he mean by that statement?
3. How did the relationship between Eliezer and his father change in the course of the year on
which the book focuses? How do you account for that change?
4. What is the meaning of the title, Night?
5. Explain what Eliezer’s story means to you.
6. Why do you think Wiesel tells his story from the first person perspective? If Night were written in
the third person, would it be more or less believable? Explain.
7. Why do you think Elie Wiesel begins Night with the story of Moshe the Beadle? What lessons
does the narrator seem to learn from Moshe’s experiences in telling his own story?