2.01 Unit Checkpoint: Night

Read this passage. In this excerpt, Eliezer is in Auschwitz, and he has learned the truth about the crematoria. In his barracks, a search is underway for prisoners who have new shoes. excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel I had new shoes myself. But as they were coated with a thick layer of mud, no one had noticed them. I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wonderful universe. Which statement best describes Eliezer's viewpoint of the fact that the mud hides his shoes?

Eliezer views the mud as an act of God out of habit because that is how he viewed the world before entering Auschwitz.

Read this passage. In this excerpt, Eliezer observes the reaction of the Jews who are about to be deported from the ghetto after spending hours outside in the heat. excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel There was joy—yes, joy. Perhaps they thought that God could have no torment in hell worse than that of sitting there among the bundles, in the middle of the road, beneath a blazing sun; that anything would be preferable to that. How does Wiesel's experience as a Jew in the concentration camps influence his viewpoint in the excerpt?

He views the situation with bitter irony, as he knows that the people were going to meet a horrible fate.

In Night, why was Moshe the Beadle forced to leave Sighet by Hungarian police?

He was not originally from Sighet, and Jews who were foreigners were the first Jews deported.

In the first pages of Night, Elie Wiesel describes how as a twelve-year-old, he spent his days studying sacred Jewish texts and his nights weeping over the destruction of the Temple. Which statement best describes the effect of Wiesel's choice to begin his memoir with that information?

It makes Eliezer's later anger toward God more poignant for the reader.

Read this passage. In this excerpt, Eliezer is being forced to leave Auschwitz for Buna, another concentration camp. excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel And then, there we were, right out in the country on the sunny road. In the sky a few little white clouds. What is the effect of the imagery of the beautiful weather?

It signals that while horrors are occurring in the concentration camps, the world continues to function normally.

Read this excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel. Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. What does the image in this excerpt refer to?

the many abandoned bodies that cannot be buried