click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Night - Wiesel
Night
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the _______ (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). | Kabballa |
| His teacher, ______ returns, telling a horrifying tale: the Gestapo (the German secret police force) took charge of his train, led everyone into the woods, and systematically butchered them | Moishe Beadle |
| In the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupy Hungary. true or false | true |
| Jews of Eliezer’s town are forced into small ghettos within ________ | Sighet |
| Upon his arrival in the first camp, _______, Eliezer and his father are separated from his mother and sisters, whom they never see again. | Birkenau |
| Eliezer and his father seem to pass the evaluation, but before they are brought to the prisoners’ barracks, they stumble upon the open-pit furnaces where the Nazis are burning ______ by the truckload. | babies |
| Eventually, their captors march them from Birkenau to the main camp, _____ | Auschwitz. |
| After months in the camp, Eliezer undergoes an operation for a _______injury | foot |
| In the middle of a snowstorm, the prisoners begin a death march: they are forced to run for more than fifty miles to the Gleiwitz concentration camp because the ______ are advancing | Russians |
| one hundred Jews board the car, but only _____ remain alive when the train reaches the concentration camp Buchenwald. | twelve |
| In which camp does Elie's father die? | Buchenwald |
| April 11, 1945, the day that the _______ army liberates the camp. | American |
| The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, | Elie |
| espected by the entire Jewish community of Sighet, and by his son as well. He and Eliezer desperately try to remain together throughout their concentration camp ordeal. | Shlomo |
| Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, | Moshe the Beadle |
| A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp | Akiba Drumer |
| s taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance. She proves to be a prophetess, however, as the trains soon arrive at the crematoria of Auschwitz. | Madame Schächter |
| A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz. Juliek reappears late in the memoir, when Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz. | Juliek |