Night Study Guide: Chapters 1-4
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
