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Stack #2509956
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A 50 year old woman whose hysterical cries of fire torture the whole cattle car of Jews. | Madame Schachter |
| the father in Night, who is a leader in the Jewish community | Chlomo Wiesel |
| the narrator of the memoir, Night | Elie Wiesel |
| the person Elie prayed he would not become like | The Rabbi’s son |
| the relative who asks if his children are still alive | Stein of Antwerp |
| hopeless patient in the bed next to Elie | Faceless shape |
| Lost his faith, gave up on life, and asked the men to say Kodish for him in three days | Akiber Drumer |
| Elie’s seven year old sister | Tzipora |
| made the selections of the prisoners | Dr. Mengele |
| the one who warns the Jews of Sighet that the Nazis want to kill them | Moshe the Beadle |
| fellow countryman | Compatriot |
| official statement ; law | Edict |
| to set forth in detail | Expound |
| the sky, or heavens | Firmament |
| small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer | Phylacteries |
| filled with disease; contagious | Pestilential |
| to rob with open violence | Pillage |
| Completely sealed; airtight | Hermetically |
| anticipation of an event, usually negative, even with actual warning | Premonition |
| Killing with the intent of wiping out a group of people | Genocide |
| hatred of the Jews | Anti-Semitism |
| in Hebrew it means great wind and burning; it came to mean annihilation | Holocaust |
| treating of some people better than others without any fair or proper reason | Discriminate |
| a part of a city in which Jews were required to live | Ghetto |
| lack of feeling for or against something; unconcern, apathy | Indifferent |
| a person or thing taking the blame for others; fall guy | Scapegoat |
| The second hanging had a tremendous effect on the prisoners because | They hung a child who was too light to die immediately |
| The French girl takes a risk when she | She speaks German to Elie |
| Who made the following statement? “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all of his promises, to the Jewish people.” | The faceless shape |
| Why was Buna evacuated? | Because the allied forces were approaching |
| When did Elie and his father have the unusual opportunity to make a choice in their fate? | when they decided to leave Buna |
| Why did Elie run as if he “had the devil at his heels”? | He wanted to appear healthy and pass selection. |
| How old was Eli when he was liberated? | 16 |
| How did Elie feel deep inside when his father died? | He felt “free at last.” |
| The German workmen who saw the train full of concentration camp slave laborers usually ignored them until the workmen | watched the slave laborers fight over one piece of bread thrown into the train cars by one German workman. |
| While on the train car Elie is horrified to see | A son killed his father for a piece of bread. |
| The statement, “The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew, it was ruled by delusion,” suggests that the Jews who lived in the ghettos— | The people ignored signs of impending danger. |
| The family’s decision to refuse their former maid’s offer of a safe shelter in another village suggests they— | They did not believe the danger was serious. |
| Wiesel states, “I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach.” This suggests that Wiesel— | He thought only about how to ease his hunger. |
| How did the inmates feel about the bombing of the Buna factory? | They " breathed in air filled with fire and smoke, and our eyes shone with hope." |
| On the eve of Rosh Hashanbah, the last day of the Jewish year, the main reason that ten thousand men gathered in the Appelplatz was to— | To hold a prayer service |
| Wiesel states, “in the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger.” This suggests that Wiesel— | He felt he didn’t belong with men who were praying to God. |
| Wiesel’s decision to evacuate the camp with the rest of the inmates was ironic because--- | Those who remained at the infirmary were liberated two days later. |
| During the “Death March” the only thing that prevented Wiesel from breaking rank and allowing himself to be shot was— | the realization that his father needed him |
| What did Eli regret when his father died? | That he could not weep |
| Who was the corpse that Elie saw in the mirror at the end of the book? | Himself |
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