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Nightby Elie Wiesel

Review Game

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1. What was the name of Eliezer’s village?

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Answer: Sighet, Transylvania (Romania)

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2. How old was Eliezer when he was deported

from his village?

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Answer: 14 (nearly 15)

3. In what year did Hitler become Chancellor of

Germany?

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Answer:1933

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4. What event caused WWII to begin on

September 1, 1939?

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Answer:German invasion of Poland

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5. Who became Elie’s spiritual teacher?

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Answer: Moshe the Beadle

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6. What did Eliezer and Moshe the Beadle study?

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Answer: the cabbala, mysticism

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7. When was Eliezer liberated from Buchenwald?

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Answer: April 10, 1945

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8. At the Wannsee Conference, Nazi officials turn over what plan to the

government?

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Answer: “The Final Solution”

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9. While being deported in the cattle cars, what did

Madame Schachter envision?

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Answer: She cried out, “Fire!” She imagined the furnaces that the Jews were to see when they reached their first camp.

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10. Identify the concentration camps in

order from the camp that “introduced” him to the horror to the camp that

liberated him.

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Answer: Birkenau, Auschwitz,Buna, Buchenwald

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11. What number did Eliezer become so “after that [he] had no other

name?”

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Answer: A-7713

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12. Juliek told Eliezer: “But Idek the Kapo, has bouts of madness now and then, when it’s best to keep out of his way.” Eliezer got angry at his father for not “keeping out of Idek’s way,” what did that signify in Eliezer’s character?

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Answer:Eliezer had grown callous from the suffering he endured in the concentration camp.

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13. Eliezer had hoped to keep his gold crown so that he could trade it for food. Describe what leads up to its being taken & explain what type of irony this is?

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Answer: Because Franek had been tormenting Eliezer’s father, Eliezer gives up his crown & he must give up a ration of bread. Cosmic irony: Eliezer believes he had free will.

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14. What risk did the French girl take when she was helping Eliezer, and

why was it a risk?

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Answer: She spoke to him in German. She had only spoken French; no one knew she could speak German. Because she has false documents, the Nazis did not think she was a Jew.

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15. What was Eliezer’s inheritance?

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Answer: a knife & a spoon

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16. What aspect of his life does Eliezer begin to

question throughout his experience at the

concentration camps?

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Answer: his faith

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17. Eliezer said: “That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” How does this

quote relate to the execution that he

witnessed?

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Answer: He lost his faith as he witnessed the young boy, “sad-eyed angel” struggle between life & death as he was being hanged.

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18. What literary term is exemplified by Eliezer’s

statement: “I was a body. Perhaps less than that: a

starved stomach?”

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Answer: metaphor

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19. What type of irony corresponds with Eliezer’s choice when he was in the hospital? He left, and then 2 days later, the hospital

was liberated.

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Answer: situational irony.Neither the audience nor the reader knows that those who are left behind will be freed.

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20. Eliezer felt himself as “two entities” during the death march; what were

those two entities?

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Answer: his mind/soul and his physical body

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21. Why did Eliezer feel ashamed when his father

had been taken to the crematory?

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Answer: His father’s last words were Eliezer’s name, and Eliezer did not respond.

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22. What is the last image that Wiesel uses to end

the novel?

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Answer: Eliezer looking into his reflection in the mirror—seeing a corpse staring back at him.

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23. In Chapter 2, as the train approached Birkenau, 2 men told the Jews: “Conditions were good. Families would not be split up.” Explain why this is verbal irony.

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Answer: The men know that the families will be split up at Birkenau. They use verbal irony (deception) to give the Jews false hope.

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24. What are two reasons that Schindler’s List was filmed in black & white?

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Answer:to enhance its realism;to create a tone of despair

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25. When Commandant Goeth says, “Today is history,” what does HE

mean?

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Answer: The Nazis would eliminate the Jews, and the Jews’ role in European history would become a “rumor.”

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26. How was Schindler able to “rescue” so many Jews from the Plascow labor camp?

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Answer: He bribed the camp officials so that these Jews could come work in his factory.

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Vocabulary27. A collection of ancient Jewish teaching

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Answer: Talmud

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28. A(n) ______ is a section of a city that is occupied

by a minority group because of social, economic, or legal

pressure.

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Answer: ghetto

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29. This 1938 event describes what happened when the Germans burned Jewish synagogues, as well as burned and looted Jewish businesses.

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Answer: Kristallnacht

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30. What are at least two symbolic meanings of “night” throughout the

novel?

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Answers: nightmare,death, despair,hopelessness,evil

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Vocabulary31. The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, political, or ethnic group.

Answer: genocide

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Vocabulary32. completely sealed, airtight

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Answer: hermetically

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Vocabulary

33. endlessly, continuously, constantly

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Answer: unremittingly

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Vocabulary

34. To delay punishment, to give relief or deliverance

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Answer:reprieve

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Vocabulary

35. Satisfaction for a wrong or injury

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Answer:atonement

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