Name: Date: Period: Night Study Guide Chapter 1 1. What does Elie desire to study? 2. Who does he get to help him? 3. What happens to Moshe the Beadle? 4. What does Moshe say happened while he was away? 5. Why don t any of the townspeople believe Moshe? 6. Explain the irony in the questions that Wiesel poses on page 8. 7. What kind of position does Elie s father have in the community? 8. What kind of relationship do Elie and his father have at the beginning of the novel? 9. Where are the Jews sent first after the arrival of the German soldiers? 10. Who was Martha? What happened when she visited the Wiesel family in the ghetto? 11. What was the community s reaction to the expulsion of the foreign Jews from Sighet? 12. Explain the following line: The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. (pg. 12) 13. When Eliezer and his family are given the opportunity to leave the ghetto, why do you think they did not take advantage of the safe shelter?
Chapter 2 1. How does Eliezer establish the mood at the beginning of this section? 2. What news do they then receive of where they are to be located? 3. How many people ride on each train car? 4. How does Mrs. Schachter s presence contribute to the anxiety that already exists on the train? 5.. What does Madame Schachter imagine she sees? 6. How does the treatment of Mrs. Schachter reflect Elie Wiesel s conviction that evil treatment of the Jews led to their belief that they were less than human? 7. Read the following line from the text: We returned to our places, shame in our souls but fear gnawing at us nevertheless. (pg. 27) Why would Eliezer feel shame at this point?
Name: Date: Period: Night Study Guide Chapter 3 1. What happens to Elie s family when they reach the camp? 2. What advice do Elie and his father receive from one of the camp prisoners? 3. What occupation does Elie say he is? 4. What happens to those who are skilled workers? 5. Write an example of a metaphor found on page 34. 6. What do Elie and the others recite as they are nearing the crematory? 7. What new name does Elie receive at the camp? 8. Who is Dr. Mengele? 9. Throughout the memoir, the prisoners are made equal in the way that they are treated, and again, Eliezer sees their equality in another way. How does he describe the equality? 10. What is written on the iron gate? Explain the irony of the saying. 11. Eliezer describes himself as a spoiled child when he is given soup. What might he mean by this?
Chapter 4 1. What happens to people with gold teeth or crowns? 2. What type of treatment do the men receive at the factory? 3. How does Elie manage to keep some of his teeth temporarily? 4. What happens to people who disobey the rules of the camp? 5. Describe Elie s internal conflict while he watches his father getting beaten. 6. How did Elie describe the men after the air raid? 7. Why does the hanging of the pipel stay in Elie s mind? 8. How did Elie say the soup tasted the night the pipel (young servant boy) was hanged? 9. How is animal imagery used on pg. 49? What is the effect of this imagery? 10. Who is the sad-eyed angel?
Name: Date: Period: Night Study Guide Chapter 5 1. How do the prisoners celebrate Rosh Hashanah? 2. How do they celebrate Yom Kippur? 3. Why doesn t Elie celebrate? 4. What was Elie s decision about fasting on Yom Kippur? Why did he make that decision? 5. What advice does the block head give the men before selection? 6. What does Elie s father give him when he thinks he has been selected? 7. What happens to Akiba Drumer? 8. What promise do Elie and his father make Akiba? Do they keep their promise? 9. Why does Elie go to the doctor? 10. Who does the prisoner next to Elie in the hospital think has kept the most promises? 11. Why do Elie and his father decide to leave with the evacuation? 12. Name the literary device that this decision is an example of.
13. Why does the head of the block order the men to clean the barracks before leaving? 14. Explain the significance of the following line: I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. (pg. 81) 15. To what does Elie equate the six o clock bell? Why does he make this comparison? Chapter 6 1. How do the men travel to Gleiwitz? 2. Who is Zalman? Why is he important to the story? 3. What happens to the men as they travel if they are slow? (2 answers) 4. What is Juliek s broken violin a symbol of? 5. What happens to the men who fall asleep in the caved-in brick factory where they pause to rest on the journey? 6. What do the men do to make up for the fact that they have nothing to drink? What do the SS do when they see this? 7. How does Elie s relationship with his father contrast with his statement: Sons abandoned the remains of their fathers without a tear.? (pg. 92)
Name: Date: Period: Night Study Guide Chapter 7 1. Why doe Elie believe that there is no longer a reason to live or fight? 2. Explain the imagery of darkness and light as it is used on the train ride to the middle of Germany. 3.. How do the men treat each other on the train ride to Buchenwald? 4.. How many men arrive at Buchenwald? How many were originally on the train? 5. Explain the significance in Elie s choice to end the story of the father and son fighting for the piece of bread with I was sixteen. (pg. 102) 6. How do the prisoners demonstrate cooperation and support? What image does Elie use to describe it? Chapter 8 1. How is the relationship between Elie and his father changing? 2. What does Elie s father choose for himself? 3. Why does Elie take his father to the doctor? 4. What is the last work that Elie s father says?
5. What are Elie s conflicting emotions with his father s death? Why is Elie unable to cry? 6. The final two paragraphs of this chapter are interesting in the way they are connected. Comment on Wiesel s use of imagery and how it adds to the meaning. Chapter 9 1. What does Elie s only concern become? 2. What do the prisoners never think of after being liberated? 3. What happens on April 10, 1945? 4. What does Elie call himself after he looks in the mirror? 5. How does the language in this chapter reflect Elie s state of mind? 6. The memoir ends with the following lines: From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. (pg. 115) Explain the meaning and importance of these lines.