Night – Elie Wiesel
1. Name the town and the country were the author spent his childhood.
2. What type of man was the author’s father?
3. How was the author’s father regarded by the townspeople?
4. How many children were in the family? Name them.
5. Whom did the author find to instruct him in cabbal?
6. What does the author do when he prays?
7. The author’s full first name is ______.
8. What happened to Moshe the Beadle?
9. How did he manage to survive?
10. Why didn’t the people in the town believe Moshe’s stories?
11. Why didn’t Elie’s father want to sell his business and emigrate to Palestine?
12. What country do the townspeople feel will defend them from the Germans?
13. When the Germans entered Sighet, how did they act?
14. On what day did the Germans arrest the leaders of the Jewish community?
15. List three of the early restrictions placed on the Jews.
16. What did Elie’s father do with the family valuables?
17. Why did the windows facing the outside street of Elie’s house have to be blocked?
18. With what terrible news does Father return?
19. What was Elie’s job?
20. Why was Elie’s family left behind?
21. Who were the family’s first oppressors?
22. Where was the family’s first stop? How do you know that others, who had been there before, left in a hurry?
23. What happened to Madame Schachter? Why? How was she quieted?
24. To which labor camp were they taken?
25. Why did they lie about their ages? How old were they really?
26. What does Elie contemplate doing rather than going to the crematorium?
27. What did the SS do to the prisoners to identify them?
28. Why did Elie lie to Stein about his family?
29. What group of workers were the first selected for termination?
30. To what camp were the men moved?
31. What was Elie asked to give up in exchange for a better camp, and later a larger ration of food?
32. What was Elie’s number?
33. To what does Elie compare himself?
34. How did Elie prevent his gold crown from being removed? Was this futile?
35. What does Elie attempt to teach his father? Why?
36. What was Elie’s punishment for accidentally interrupting the Kapo?
37. What happened during the air raid that showed how hungry the people were?
38. What does Elie’s father give to him?
39. What happens to Elie’s foot?
40. During the evacuation how do most of the people die?
41. How did the men get a drink of water as the waited for the train?
42. Why does Elie slap his father?
43. What are they eating to survive?
44. To what concentration camp were they taken?
45. What happens to Elie’s father? How does Elie find out?
46. Which group liberated Buchenwald?
47. How does Elie describe the look he had/has in his eyes?