Night Name:Date:Humanities Teacher Name:

Directions: Define each character and each term as you read Night. *You don’t need to do anything with the dates or setting, except refer to them.

Characters: Terms to Know:Elie Wiesel - Elie’s # (Eliezer) Rosh Hashanah

Elies’ mother Passover

Elie’s father Yom Kippur

Moshe the beadle Hanukkah or Chanukkah

Tzipora Synagogue

Madame Schachter Talmud

Dr. Mengele Torah

Katz Family Rabbi

Stein Anti- Semitic

Akiba Drumer ghetto

Juliek genocide

Franek selection

Idek deportation

Alphonse Gestapo

Yossi and Tibi SS

The French Girl Kapos / Oberkapos

The Dutchman Nazi

The Pipel Kaddish

Rabbi Eliahou Aryan

Chlomo Hasidic

Dates: Settings:1941 - Beginning Elie is 12 Transylvania (Sighet)1942 - Moche the Beadle returns Hungary1943 - Life settles into routine Birkenau1944 - Spring (doubts) Auschwitz1945 - April, release Buchenwald Buna, Buchenwald

Night Name:Chapters 2 and 3 Date:

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by Elie Wiesel

Directions: Explain EACH of the following as completely as possible. Include metaphor, symbolism, irony, foreshadowing, etc. in your explanation.

1. Schächter

2. “Eight simple words”

3. Dr. Mengele

4. Elie’s question: “How could it be possible for them to burn people, children and for the world to be silent?” Answer him please.

5. electric fence

6. How do the Germans make all the prisoners equal?

7. What is Elie’s ONE THOUGHT?

8. Bela Katz

9. Why doesn’t Elie know how much time has passed?

10. What is Elie’s reaction to his father being hit by the SS man?

11. Explain the two signs: Warning: Danger of Death

Work is Liberty

12. Selection

13. Stein

14. Akiba Drumer

15. Job (Biblical allusion)

16. What do Elie and his father pretend and why?

17. Explain the last sentence of chapter three: “The iron gate closed behind us.” (Wiesel 43)

Night Name:Chapter 4 Date:

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Directions: Explain EACH of the following as completely as possible. Include metaphor, symbolism, irony, foreshadowing, etc. in your explanation.

1. dentist (s)

2. Juliek

3. Buna - a “good” camp

4. Franek

5. Yossi and Tibi

6. Akiba Drumer

7. Alphonse

8. The French Girl

9. What is Elie’s reaction when Idek beats his father: Why?

10. Elie’s whipping

11. Air raid

12. Two hangings - describe each, especially the Dutchman and the Pipel. (resistance?)

13. Answer Elie’s question: “Where is G-d now?”

Night Name:Chapter 5 Date:

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Directions: Explain EACH of the following as completely as possible. Include metaphor, symbolism, irony, foreshadowing, etc. in your explanation.

1. “Once I had believed profoundly that upon one solitary deed of mine, one solitary prayer, depended the salvation of the world.”

2. “I ceased to be anything but ashes.”

3. “I no longer accepted G-d’s silence . . . in the depths of my heart, I felt a great void.” (Yom Kippur)

4. “This must be how one stands at the last judgment.” (naked, waiting for selection)

5. “Those whose numbers had been noted stood apart, abandoned by the whole world.”

6. “I felt sick at heart. How well they were treating me! Like an orphan! I thought: even now, my father is still helping me.”

7. (Akiba Drumer) “ . . . he had no strength left, nor faith. Suddenly his eyes would become blank, nothing but two open wounds, two pits of terror.”

8. “They forgot to say Kaddish for him.”

9. New reports of the Red Cross working for their release -- “It was an injection of morphine.”

10. “What does it matter to you? Do we have to regard Hitler as prophet? - Elie

“I’ve more faith in Hitler than in any one else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises to the Jewish people.” - hospital patient, faceless

11. What’s ironic about Elie and his father’s decision to evacuate with the others?

12. “ ‘So that they’ll realize there were men living here and not pigs’ .”

13. “The gates of the camp opened. It seemed that an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side.”

Night Name:Chapter 6 Date:

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Directions: Explain EACH of the following as completely as possible. Include metaphor, symbolism, irony, foreshadowing, etc. in your explanation.

1. “Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled.” (Wiesel 82)

2. Rabbi Eliahou and his son (Wiesel 87)

3. Juliek and his violin in the “crush of bodies” (Wiesel 89-90)

Night Chapter 7

1. “. . . a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workman took a lively interest in this spectacle.” (Wiesel 95)

2. The story of the father and son who fight over the bread? (Wiesel 96)

3. What is Meir Katz’s story? Why does he weep now? (Wiesel 97)

Night Chapters 8 and 9 Name: Date:

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1. Elie’s father’s death (Wiesel 102-106)

2. Why do the SS decide to evacuate the camp?

3. What happens to Elie when he finally receives enough food?

4. Explain the last line of the novel: “The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” (Wiesel 109)

II. Identifications. Identify FOUR of the following and explain its significance in terms of the novel. Significance = symbolism, lessons learned, foreshadowing, meaning to Elie, etc. (20 points)

selection spoon and knife sad-eyed angelWork is liberty Rabbi Eliahou KaddishYom Kippur Hitler’s promise/prophet Akiba Drumergold crowns showers A-7713

III. Short Answer. Pick ONE of the following. Discuss it fully using complete sentences. Include concrete details and examples. Pay attention to grammar and organization! (20 points)

*Describe Elie’s first night at Birkenau.*Give 3 examples of courage in the novel and discuss them.*Describe Elie’s stay at Gleiwitz.*Choose one scene from the novel which had an emotional impact on you. Describe the

scene and the effect it had on you.*Describe the train trip from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald.

IV. Essay. Pick ONE of the following. Discuss it fully using complete sentences. Include concrete details and examples. Use proper essay test response format. Address ALL parts of

the prompt. (50 points)

*Relate the title of this biography, Night, to the story it tells. (In other words, why is this an appropriate title? What is the significance of the title? Concentrate on Elie himself. What is the symbolism, etc.)

*Trace Elie’s professed loss of faith, paralleling the emotional changes he undergoes.

*A motif is a literary pattern that is repeated in a work. Explain how ONE of these motifs is used in the biography.

the use of darkness imagethe journey of initiation (knowledge)allusions or references to the Bible

*Why were the people in Night (both Jewish and others) unconcerned about the rumors of their fate? Give at least 3 examples.

*Explain Elie’s last words, From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me, of the novel in terms of the novel’s message in its entirety.