Night Review
Vocabulary Review
•Withered, dried
up, shriveled
•Answer:
Wizened
•To put or throw
flat with the face
down, as in
submission
•Answer:
Prostrate
•The state of
the spirits of a
person or
group
•Answer:
Morale
•To force or
drive out; to
force to leave
•Answer:
Expelled
•Protection or
shelter, as from
danger or
hardship
•Answer:
Refuge
•Difficult to bear
burdensome,
weighing heavily
on the sense or
spirit
•Answer:
Oppressive
•Of or relating
to hell,
fiendish,
diabolical
•Answer:
Infernal
•An inflammatory
disease of the
lower intestinal
tract, caused by a
bacterial parasitic
infection
•Answer:
dysentery
•Of or relating
to, or
occurring in
the night
•Answer:
nocturnal
•Having religious
reverence;
devout
•Answer: pious
•An intervening
episode,
feature, or
period of time
•Answer:
interlude
•Full of health
and strength,
powerfully
built
•Answer:
robust
•Discolored, as
from a bruise,
extremely
angry, furious
•Answer: livid
•Being or
seeming to be
without and
end, tiresomely
long
•Answer:
interminable
•A sharp contortion of
the face expressive
of pain, contempt, or
disgust. To make a
sharpt contortion of
the face
•Answer:
grimace
•A fixed portion
of food. To
restrict or limit
allotments
•Answer:
ration
•A period of time
of enforced
isolation or
restriction of
free movement
•Answer:
quarantine
•To postpone or
cancel the
punishment of,
to bring relief to
•Answer:
reprieve
•Lack of concern
or interest, lack
of emotion or
feeling
•Answer:
Apathy
•Characterized
by kindness,
mercy, or
compassion
•Answer:
humane
Character Identification
“She was about fifty… Her
husband and two eldest
sons had been deported
with the first transport by
mistake. The separation
had completely broken
her.”
•Answer:
Madame
Schachter
“… a cruel face, but not
devoid of intelligence,
and wearing a monocle;
a conductor’s baton in his
hand… The Baton moved
unremittingly, sometimes
to the right, sometimes to
the left.”
•Answer: Dr.
Mengele
“I don’t attach any
importance to my
life anymore. I’m
alone. No, I wanted
to come back, and
to warn you.”
•Answer:
Moshe the
Beadle
Whips Elie for
seeing him
with a naked
girl
•Answer: Idek
He was almost
thrown off the train
because the
prisoners thought
he was frozen to
death.
•Answer:
Elie’s Father
(Chlomo)
Does not realize
that his son has
abandoned him
during the forced
run
•Answer:
Rabbi
Eliahou
• At the beginning of the
book, when Eliezer
prays, he
a. smiles.
b. concentrates
c. weeps
d. grimaces
•Answer: c.
weeps
• The Jews in the Sighet
ghettos
a. refuse to cooperate with
the Nazis at all.
b. set up a basic city
government.
c. treat each other badly.
d. have more freedom
than before.
•Answer: b. set
up a basic city
government.
• The musicians on the work
crew are not permitted to play
Beethoven because
– A. the Nazis hate Beethoven
– B. the music might distract
the prisoners.
– C. Beethoven was a Jew.
– D. Jews are not allowed to
play German music.
•Answer: D.
Jews are not
allowed to play
German music.