Night ReviewNight Review
Vocabulary ReviewVocabulary Review
•Withered, dried up, shriveled
•Answer: Wizened
•To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission
•Answer: Prostrate
•The state of the spirits of a person or group
•Answer: Morale
•To force or drive out; to force to leave
•Answer: Expelled
•Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship
•Answer: Refuge
•Difficult to bear burdensome, weighing heavily on the sense or spirit
•Answer: Oppressive
•Of or relating to hell, fiendish, diabolical
•Answer: Infernal
•An inflammatory disease of the lower intestinal tract, caused by a bacterial parasitic infection
•Answer: dysentery
•Of or relating to, or occurring in the night
•Answer: nocturnal
•Having religious reverence; devout
•Answer: pious
•An intervening episode, feature, or period of time
•Answer: interlude
•Full of health and strength, powerfully built
•Answer: robust
•Discolored, as from a bruise, extremely angry, furious
•Answer: livid
•Being or seeming to be without and end, tiresomely long
•Answer: interminable
•A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust. To make a sharpt contortion of the face
•Answer: grimace
•A fixed portion of food. To restrict or limit allotments
•Answer: ration
•A period of time of enforced isolation or restriction of free movement
•Answer: quarantine
•To postpone or cancel the punishment of, to bring relief to
•Answer: reprieve
•Lack of concern or interest, lack of emotion or feeling
•Answer: Apathy
•Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion
•Answer: humane
Character IdentificationCharacter Identification“She was about fifty… Her
husband and two eldest sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake. The separation had completely broken her.”
•Answer: Madame Schachter
“… a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle; a conductor’s baton in his hand… The Baton moved unremittingly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.”
•Answer: Dr. Mengele
“I don’t attach any importance to my life anymore. I’m alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you.”
•Answer: Moshe the Beadle
Whips Elie for seeing him with a naked girl
•Answer: Idek
He was almost thrown off the train because the prisoners thought he was frozen to death.
•Answer: Elie’s Father (Chlomo)
Does not realize that his son has abandoned him during the forced run
•Answer: Rabbi Eliahou
• At the beginning of the book, when Eliezer prays, he
a. smiles.
b. concentrates
c. weeps
d. grimaces
•Answer: c. weeps
• The Jews in the Sighet ghettos
a. refuse to cooperate with the Nazis at all.
b. set up a basic city government.
c. treat each other badly.
d. have more freedom than before.
•Answer: b. set up a basic city government.
• The musicians on the work crew are not permitted to play Beethoven because
– A. the Nazis hate Beethoven– B. the music might distract
the prisoners.– C. Beethoven was a Jew.– D. Jews are not allowed to
play German music.
•Answer: D. Jews are not allowed to play German music.