Night
Slideshow Review
Elie wanted his
family to move here.
• Palestine
The day of
atonement is
called…
• Yom Kippur
Elie grew up in the
country of ___.
• Transylvania
Jewish musicians
were not allowed to
play music
composed by ___.
• Beethoven
Elie had surgery on
his ___.
• foot
Elie’s father’s first
name.
• Chlomo
___ tried to warn
the Jews of Sighet.
• Moshe the Beadle
During the
evacuation, what
was the weather
like?
• snowing
Elie’s “inheritance”
was a ___ and a ___.
• Knife and spoon
In what year does
the story begin?
• 1941
In what year does
the story end?
• 1945, with the end
of the war
How old was Elie
when the story
begins?
• Almost 13
Every Jew was made
to wear the ___ of
___.
• Star … David
Who offered the
Wiesel family refuge
in her village?
• Martha/Maria
translation)
(depending on
What words were
over the entrance to
Auschwitz?
• “Arbeit macht Frei.”
(Work is liberty)
For whom do Jews
say kaddish?
• The dead
Who became Elie’s
instructor in the
mystical aspects of
the Jewish faith?
• Moshe
What terror did
Moshe describe
when he retured?
• The deportees had
been shot and
dumped into large
mass graves.
True or False: Many
of the people
believed Moshe's
story and prepared
to leave Sighet.
• False
What was the
setting and the year
for the first section
of the book?
• 1942-1944 in
Sighet, Transylvania
True or False: Elie's
mother and sisters
went to Martha's
village.
• False
What did Madame
Schächter see in her
vision?
• She saw a fire--a
furnace, with huge
flames.
True or False: Some of the
young men tied Madame
Schächter up and gagged
her. Then they
hit her.
• True
Which notorious SS
officer did they meet
at the concentration
camp?
• They met Dr.
Mengele.
What was Elie's main
thought as the men and
women were being herded
from the first train?
• It was to stay with his
father at all costs.
True or False: The
people were reciting
the Kaddish, the
prayer for the dead,
for themselves.
• True
True or False: Elie
beat up the gypsy
who struck his
father.
• False
What did Franek
want from Elie?
• He wanted Elie's
gold tooth.
What happened to
the young man from
Warsaw?
• He was hanged for
stealing during the
air-raid.
How did Elie say the soup
tasted the night the pipel
(young servant boy) was
hanged?
• He said it tasted of
corpses.
What was Elie's decision
about fasting on Yom
Kippur? Why did he make
that decision?
• He did not fast, partly as
an act of rebellion
against God.
What was Elie's
inheritance from his
father?
• The inheritance was a
knife and spoon.
Did the men
remember to say the
Kaddish for Akiba
Drumer?
• No
What happened to the patients
who stayed in the hospital instead
of being evacuated?
• They were liberated by the
Russians two days after the
others left.
What was the last thing the
head of the block ordered the
men to do before they
evacuated?
• Clean
What was the
weather like during
the evacuation?
• It snowed.
What did Elie realize about
Rabbi Eliahou's son just
after the evacuation?
• The son had been trying
to lose his father as the
men were all running.
True or False: Juliek
played a Mozart
concerto for the
men in the camp.
• False
Who died in the
train just before the
men were unloaded
at Buchenwald?
• Meir Katz
How many men started out
in the train? How many
were left when they arrived
at Buchenwald?
• 100, 12