Night Study Guide: Chapters 1-4

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How many children were in Elie's family?

4

On the third night, what did Madame Schachter cry out over and over?

I see a fire

What did Elie say his occupation was?

a farmer

truncheon

a short, thick stick carried as a weapon

kaddish

an ancient Jewish prayer

Who told Elie to say he was 18?

an inmate

cabala

ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible

Fraenk

gold tooth

Was Elie separated from everyone in his family? If not, how were they divided?

he got to stay with his father; the women and the men were separated

Why did Idek have Elie beaten?

he saw Idek with the Polish girl

Why was Moshe the Beadle important to Eli Wiesel?

he spiritually mentored him

When Moshe the Beadle returned to Sighet what did he talk about?

he talked about how he escaped and what happened to him

Why was Moshe the Beadle expelled from Sighet?

he was a foreign Jew

Elie was befriended by a French girl. Where did Elie meet her again (after the war)?

in Paris at the Métro

Elie had become used to death, but how did the pipel's death make Elie feel?

it made him think that God was dead to him (he lost all remaining faith) and it made his soup taste like corpses

passover

major Jewish spring festival

Juliek

musician

Was Elie separated from his father?

no he wasn't

What did Elie do when his father was beaten?

nothing

Why did Elie finally give up his gold crowned tooth?

so Fraenk wouldn't beat his father

pentecost

the Jewish festival of Shavuoth

rosh hashanah

the Jewish new year

talmud

the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law

genocide

the deliberate killing of a large group of people

tishri

the first month of the civil and the 7th of the religious year

yom kippur

the most solemn religious fast of the Jewish year

Did the Jews on the train ever see what Madame Schachter had visualized? If so, where?

they saw the flames in Birkenau

Why did the Jews begin to recite the Kaddish for themselves?

they thought they were going to die and no one else would say the prayer for them

Idek

with Polish girl

At the new camp, Elie saw a door with an inscription over it which read ...

work makes you free

Jews were required to wear the ...

yellow star; his dad said it wasn't a big deal and it wouldn't kill him


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