Name English I Honors Print this handout, and answer the questions in the provided space to be turned in on the second day of school. Complete sentences are not necessary. The class will complete the lesson on Night before And Then There Were None. Any evidence of plagiarism will result in a grade of 0. Section 1 1. Describe Moshe the Beadle. 2. Describe Elie Wiesel's father. What is his occupation? 3. Why is Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel? 4. Why does Elie pray? Why does he cry when he prays? 5. Summarize the story Moshe the Beadle tells on his return from being deported. Why does he say he has returned to Sighet? 6. What is the public reaction to Moshe's story? Why do they not believe him? 7. How does Wiesel say he felt about the Hungarian police? 8. Cite examples of how the Jewish citizens of Sighet begin to lose their rights. 9. What is a ghetto? 10. Why do the citizens resist the truth, even when it is directly in front of them? 11. Who was Martha? What happened when she visited the Wiesel family in the ghetto? 12. Describe the conditions on the train at the end of the chapter. Section 2 1. To what does Wiesel compare the world?
2. What does Madame Schächter see in her vision? 3. How does the other people in the car react to Madame Schächter? 4. What does the Jews in the train car discover when they looked out the window? 5. When does Wiesel say the travelers left their illusions behind? 6. What is foreshadowed by Mrs. Schacter s nightmare? 7. What does some of the passengers do to quiet Mrs. Schacter? 8. Where does the train finally stop? Section 3 1. What is Elie's main thought as the men and women are being herded from the train? 2. Which notorious SS officer do they meet at Auschwitz? 3. When questioned by the S.S. officer, why does Elie lie about his age and occupation? 4. What is the first horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved? 5. Explain what Elie mean when he says, Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever. 6. How has Elie changed in a short time? 7. What is Elie s first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau? 8. What is Bela Katz forced to do after he was chosen for his strength? 9. What formalities do the prisoners have to go through at the entrance to the camps? 10. What sort of identification is used on the prisoners?
11. Why is the prisoner in charge of Elie s block removed from his position? 12. What are the prisoners rations at each meal? 13. What prayer are the people saying? Why is it unusual? 14. What does Elie do when the gypsy strikes his father? Why? What was his father's response? 15. How long are Elie and his father at Auschwitz? Where do they go after that? Section 4 1. Describe Elie's encounter with the dentist. 2. What are the objectives of the medical examinations? 3. What does Elie Wiesel do when Idek hit his father? What was he thinking? 4. Who takes Elie's gold tooth? Why does Elie give it up? 5. How does Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown? 6. What happens when Elie refuses to give his crown to Franek? What is the end result? 7. What are the only things in which Elie take an interest? 8. How does Elie describe the men after the air raid? 9. Why are the Jewish musicians not allowed play music by Beethoven? 10. What happens to the young man from Warsaw? Why? 11. How does Elie say the soup tastes the night the pipel (young servant boy) is hanged? 12. During one of the preliminary ceremonies for a hanging, what does Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?
13. Whom does Elie meet years later on the Paris metro? 14. Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons. Section 5 1. What did the men do on the eve of Rosh Hashana? 2. How does Elie feel while the others were praying? 3. What advice is Elie given to pass the selection process? 4. How does Elie s father respond when he learned his name had been written down? 5. What is Elie's decision about fasting on Yom Kippur? Why did he make that decision? 6. What is Elie's "inheritance" from his father? Why is his father giving it to him? 7. What does Akiba Drumer ask the others to do for him? Do they do it? Why? 8. What does Elie dream of when he dreams of a better world? 9. Why is Elie placed in the hospital? 10. What happens to the patients who stay in the hospital instead of being evacuated? 11. What is the last thing the head of the block orders the men to do before they evacuate? Why? 12. Why is the camp to be evacuated? What does Elie learn of the fate of those who stayed behind? 13. What is the weather like during the evacuation? Section 6 1. While running, an idea begins to fascinate Elie. What is the idea? What keeps him from carrying out his idea?
2. What happened to anyone who could not keep up with the march? 3. How does Zalman die? 4. What does Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou and his son? 5. What is Juliek s last act? 6. How does Elie help his father when the selection is made? 7. What is the name of the camp to which the men walk? Section 7 1. How does Elie again help his father when they were on the train? 2. Describe the scene Elie witnesses between the father and son. 3. How many get out of the wagon? Where had they arrived? 4. Describe Elie's meeting with Juliek. 5. How long are they at Gleiwitz? Where do they go next? 6. Who is Meir Katz? What happens to him? 7. How many men start out in the train? How many are left when they arrive at Buchenwald? Section 8 1. Explain how the father/son roles have been reversed in the case of Elie and his father. 2. Why is Elie s father being beaten? 3. What does Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block? Section 9 1. What happens on April 5th?
2. What is the resistance movement? What did they do? 3. What does the prisoners do when they were freed? 4. What happens on April 10, 1945?
Preview 1. What are the 10 core concepts; give a brief description of each? 2. What is totalitarianism? 3. What three policies did the Nazis implement as their plan to deal with the Jewish Question evolved? 4. What were the Nuremburg Laws? 5. What was Kristallnacht? 6. What are Einsatzgruppen? 7. Which two European countries were most successful at saving their Jewish populations? 8. How many Jews survived in Poland? 9. How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust? 10. What other groups did the Nazis persecute? (5) 11. What was the original title of the novel, Night? 12. What are the five motifs found in the novel? 13. What point of view is the novel written in? Chapter 1 14. Write an example of a simile found on page 1. 15. What does Elie desire to study? 16. Who does he get to help him? 17. What happens to Moshe the Beadle? 18. What does Moshe say happened while he was away? 19. Why don t any of the townspeople believe Moshe? 20. What kind of position does Elie s father have in the community? 21. What kind of relationship do Elie and his father have at the beginning of the novel? 22. Where are the Jews sent first after the arrival of the German soldiers? 23. Provide an example of a simile and a metaphor from page 15. Chapter 2 24. What news do they then receive of where they are to be located? 25. How many people ride on each train car? 26. What does Madame Schachter imagine she sees? 27. Name the literary device Madame Schachter s vision is an example of. Chapter 3 28. What happens to Elie s family when they reach the camp? 29. What advice do Elie and his father receive from one of the camp prisoners?
30. What occupation does Elie say he is? 31. What happens to those who are skilled workers? 32. Write an example of a metaphor found on page 34. 33. What do Elie and the others recite as they are nearing the crematory? 34. What new name does Elie receive at the camp? Chapter 4 35. What happens to people with gold teeth or crowns? 36. What type of treatment do the men receive at the factory? 37. How does Elie manage to keep some of his teeth temporarily? 38. What happens to people who disobey the rules of the camp? 39. Why does the hanging of the pipel stay in Elie s mind? Chapter 5 40. How do the prisoners celebrate Rosh Hashanah? 41. How do they celebrate Yom Kippur? 42. Why doesn t Elie celebrate? 43. What advice does the block head give the men before selection? 44. What does Elie s father give him when he thinks he has been selected? 45. What happens to Akiba Drumer? 46. What promise do Elie and his father make Akiba? Do they keep their promise? 47. Why does Elie go to the doctor? 48. Who does the prisoner next to Elie in the hospital think has kept the most promises? 49. Why do Elie and his father decide to leave with the evacuation? 50. Name the literary device that this decision is an example of. 51. Why does the head of the block order the men to clean the barracks before leaving? Chapter 6 52. How do the men travel to Gleiwitz? 53. What happens to the men as they travel if they are slow? (2 answers) 54. What is Juliek s broken violin a symbol of? 55. What happens to the men who fall asleep in the caved-in brick factory where they pause to rest on the journey? 56. 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?
Chapter 7 57. How do the men treat each other on the train ride to Buchenwald? 58. How many men arrive at Buchenwald? How many were originally on the train? Chapter 8 59. What does Elie s father choose for himself? 60. Why does Elie take his father to the doctor? 61. What is the last work that Elie s father says? 62. What are Elie s conflicting emotions with his father s death? Chapter 9 63. What does Elie s only concern become? 64. What do the prisoners never think of after being liberated? 65. What does Elie call himself after he looks in the mirror? Review 66. List 3 examples of father/son relationships in the story. 67. What does night symbolize in the novel? Refer back to page 32 for help. 68. Name at least two events in the story where Elie expresses his loss of faith. 69. Which characters are witnesses? How? 70. List at least 3 opportunities Elie s family had to escape.