Night Book Review
How many prisoners survived the train trip to Buchenwald?
12
Who treats Elie nicely? After the war, he later sees this person on a train.
A French girl at his work place
What did Elie see in the mirror?
A corpse
When Elie looks at himself in the mirror what does he see staring back at him?
A corpse
What is the inheritance that Elie's father leaves his son?
A knife and spoon
What happens to Elie one night on the train ride?
A stranger attempts to strangle him
Who comes to rescue prisoners at the camp at the end of the book?
Americans
Why won't the first doctor who comes along help Elie's father?
Because the doctor is a surgeon
What are the prisoners stunned to see as they leave the cattle car?
Chimneys belonging to crematories
What did Elie say the soup tasted like at the end of section 4?
Corpses
Elie looked for his father, but as he did so, he was ashamed of himself for thinking
Don't let me find him; he is a burden
Who performed the selection?
Dr. Mengele
What happens to the Wiesel family when they arrive to Birkenau?
Elie and his father are separated from Tzipora and his mother
Who saves Elie from being strangled by another prisoner?
Elie's father and Meir Katz
What illness does Elie suffer from after being liberated?
Food poisoning
What happens the Moshe the Beadle?
Forced to dig their own graves, taken to Poland, on cattle cars
As time passes what happens to the jews of Sighet?
Forced to wear the star of David, ordered not to leave their homes for 3 days. forbidden to visit restaurants, cafes, or synagogues, given a 6 pm curfew, forbidden to travel by rail - eventually placed in ghettos and then the camps
Who took Elie's gold crown?
Franek
During the bombing, what did one inmate try to do that caused him to die?
He attempted to steal soup
Why does Elie feel guilty when his father dies?
He didn't cry
When Elie's father calls out for water when the SS officer is nearby, what happens?
He got a severe blow to the head
How is Elie's father spared from a selection?
He is able to move to the unselected side during a bit of confusion
Why isn't Elie sure about reciting the Kaddish?
He is losing faith in God
On their train trip to Germany, Elie saves his father when he is nearly thrown off the train. Why was he nearly thrown out?
He is mistaken for dead, but Elie wakes him
How is Elie able to keep his gold crown?
He lies and says that he is sick
How does Moshe the Beadle escape the gestapo?
He plays dead
What happens to Juliek?
He plays one last tune on his violin before dying
What happens to Elie's father at the end of the book?
His body is taken away during the night
Why does Elie go to the hospital?
His foot swells up
Elie was publicly whipped for seeing _________ in bed with a young woman
Idek
What does the german solider tell all those to aboard the cattle car?
If any of them escape they will all be killed
Who played his violin for the prisoners until he was killed?
Juliek
Who was the woman on the train screaming about the flames?
Madame Shachter
Who helps Elie on the train?
Meir Katz
Who tried unsuccessfully to warn the Wiesel family to leave?
Moshe the Beadle
Who was considered a burden and left behind by his son?
Rabbi Eliahou
What is the "fine New Year's gift" that the SS gave to the prisoners?
Selection
What does Madame Schacter scream out continuously?
She screams out of the fear of the fire
Where does Elie live with his family?
Sighet
Chosen for their strength, these people worked in the crematoria
Sonder-Kommando
What does a man try to unsuccessfully steal during an air raid?
Soup
What lie does Elie tell his cousin Stein?
Stein's family is doing well
How does an SS officer react when Elie's father doesn't quiet down?
Strikes him in the head
Who did Elie meet in the camp and again many years later who passed for Aryan, but was really Jewish?
The French girl
What happens when the resistance movement takes action?
The SS flee the camp
What does the head of camp announce during roll call?
The camp will be liquidated
The train finally arrives at Auschwitz. At first, how are the prisoners told they will be treated?
They are told they will be treated well
How do the prisoners appease their thirst as they wait for the train?
They aren't allowed to bend to get snow so they scrape it off each other's backs
By what means of transportation do the prisoners of Buna evacuate the camp?
They travel by foot
Elie and his father decide to leave Buna when the Germans evacuate the camp. What would have happened if they had remained at Buna?
They would have been liberated by the Russians
During his remaining time at Buchenwald, what is Elie's only desire?
To eat
What is it that Elie's father keeps on begging for? Elie is hesitant in getting him this.
Water
The prisoners fought each other to the death because
a workman threw bread into the wagon
Elie went into the hospital to have surgery for
an infected foot
As the truck was brought closer to Elie when he arrived at the concentration camp, he saw that it contained
babies and children
In the selection in which Elie's father was sent to the left, to his death, Elie
created confusion in which some died
Elie's father needed a doctor because he was stricken with
dysentery
After liberation, the only thing the prisoners could think of was
food
Before the Jews were taken to Auschwitz, they were
forced to move into the ghettos
Because of the conditions on the train to Buchenwald, most of the prisoners
had died
After a while in the camps, Elie's thoughts and actions began to show that
he was losing faith in God
As they arrived in Aushchwitz, a prisoner warned Elie and his father to
lie about their ages
As a young man, one of the most important things in Elie's life was
religion
The result of the uprising by the resistance was that
the Nazis left and the resistance took over
Who was tortured for information he did not have and then hung and did not die for over 30 minutes?
the pipel
One of the officers took a special interest in the children because he
was going to abuse them
