Night Content

The systematic killing of an entire nation or ethnic group.

• Prejudice
• Holocaust
• Genocide
• Anti-Semitism

Which of the following is NOT a theme of Night?

• Inhumanity towards other humans

• Struggle with Faith

• The importance of father/son relationship

• Finding inner peace

Fire is a symbol of

• the destruction of life, hope, and God

• the furnace that burned corpses

• those who died

• the terrible, tragic things that occurred to the Jews.

Which would be the most important detail to include in a summary of "Night"?

• Elie almost lost his foot at Auschwitz.
• Elie was a Hungarian Jew who was imprisoned during the Holocaust.
• Moishe the Beadle tried to warn the Jews of Sighet.
• Dr. Mengele chose who would live and who would die at camp.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which quote supports the topic of Loss of Faith

• "Yet at the same time, a thought crept into my mind. If only I didn't find [my father.] If only I were relieved of the responsibility," (Wiesel 106).

• "Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled," (Wiesel 67).

• "The kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain," (Wiesel 36).

• "I watched other hangings. I never saw a single victim weep," (Wiesel 63).

Details like "crammed into cattle cars" effectively...

• highlights the unjust treatment of the Jews during the war

• targets the Gestapo as the ones responsible for the genocide

• shows dehumanization of the Jews to animals or objects

• explains why the Jews were so happy to be moving on

Narrator of the novel 

• Elie Wiesel
• Oprah
• Chlomo Wiesel
• Moshe the Beadle

This novel falls into the ______________ genre.

• Science fiction

• Expository

• Autobiographical literary non-fiction/memoir

• Persuasive

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CCSS.RL.K.5

What was the main problem in this story?

• Moshe the Beadle was spreading rumors
• Eliezer and his father did not like spending time in the hospital
• Eliezer's father would not allow him to study the cabbala
• Eliezer and his father tried to protect themselves and each other in the concentration camp 

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A theme in this narrative is

• the silent complicity in the Holocaust of the average German citizen
• a young boy's loss of innocence and loss of faith
• the disregard the Allied airplanes demonstrated for the lives of inmates when they bombed the camps
• all of the above

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.10