"Night" Chapter 2 - Check for Understanding

Chapter 2 of "Night" starts with these lines: "LYING DOWN was not an option, nor could we all sit down." Where are Elie Wiesel and his family?

• They are home, and they are not allowed to leave since guards are stationed outside of their house.

• They are on a train, traveling from a Jewish ghetto to a concentration camp outside of their home country.

• They are on a train, traveling from a Jewish ghetto to a concentration camp inside of their home country.

• They are in prison since they violated the order of Nazi soliders.

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Read these lines on Page 23: "The train stopped in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border. We realized then that we were not staying in Hungary. Our eyes opened. Too late." Check ALL inferences that are reasonable to make (based on these lines).

• Elie and his family had been sleeping since their eyes had closed.

• The Germans tricked people during the Holocaust so that it would not be known that Jewish people were being taken to concentration camps.

• Children such as Elie Wiesel had no ideas of the horrors that lied ahead of them.

• Many people in Elie's town were acting as bystanders who took no action to prevent the injustices of The Holocaust.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau was the name of a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

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On pages 23-24, what does the German officer walking through the train collect in his basket?

• Money (the cost for each passenger to ride the train)

• Any gold, silver, and watches belonging to the Jews on the train

• Any gold, silver, and watches belonging to anyone on the train

• The names of the Jewish people in case they escaped later on

Check ALL true facts in the text that concern Ms. Schachter.

• She had been separated from 3 of her family members, including her husband.

• She had been separated from 3 of her family members, including her youngest son.

• Elie Wiesel previously knew Ms. Schachter.

• Ms. Schachter repeatedly screams about seeing a fire during this chapter.

• Ms. Schacter actually does see fires from her view out of the train window.

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Another word for anguish is _ _ _ _.

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Read these lines from page 26. ["Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere..."

Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval:]

What term that we already know describes the people who shouted their approval?

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Pretend you come across the word "delusional" in the text. What reading habit can help you decipher this word?

• Looking at the meaning of the prefix "De-" (which means off or from)

• Using a dictionary to look up the meaning

• Skipping the word, because you do not know what it means

• Thinking about whether the word sounds like a negative or positive idea

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Read these lines from page 27 of the text: "Mrs. Schächter remained huddled in her corner, mute, un-

touched by the optimism around her. Her little one was stroking her hand." What best inference can you make about those people "around her".

• They are happy and positive.

• They are glad that she is no longer screaming about the fire.

• They have no knowledge about concentration camps.

• They are thankful that the guards are no longer taking their personal belongings.

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Check all true facts (from the text) about "the fire" that Ms. Schachter was screaming about?

• When the train finally stopped at the concentration camp, the flames of a fire are what the Jews finally saw.

• The language about the fire serves to foreshadow what will soon happen to Jews in concentration camps: they will be burned alive.

• We know that her family members have already been burned alive in a fire.

• The fire is symbolic of how evil will continue to grow unless upstanders fight to put it out.