Night Review

What does Moshe the Beadle teach Elie?

• How to stay strong despite personal shortcomings

• How to mend shoes better than Elie’s father can

• The teachings of the Kabbalah

• The fact that evil sometimes overcomes good

What happens to Moshe the Beadle and the foreign Jews in Sighet?

• They are hauled away in train cars

• They are taken to Poland

• They are forced to dig their own graves

As time passes, what happens to the Jews of Sighet?

• They are forced to wear yellow stars

• They are forced to live in ghettos

• They all must march to Budapest

What does Madame Schachter scream out continuously?

• She screams out of fear of the ghosts

• She screams out of fear of being clubbed

• She screams out of the fear of the fire

• She screams out of fear of the gunfire

5. How do people aboard the cattle car try to get Madame Schachter to quiet down?

• They talk her into quieting down

• They beat her up and tie her up

• They threaten her child’s life unless she stops

• They threaten to throw her out of the cattle car unless she stops

6. What are the prisoners stunned to see as they leave the cattle car?

• Chimneys belonging to crematories

• Fields of open graves

• Giant factories for all the prisoners to work in

• Dormitories for the elderly

What happens to the Wiesel family when they arrive at Birkenau?

• They are kept together and taken to a factory

•  They move into a dormitory together

• Elie and his father are separated from Tzipora and his mother

• They refuse to leave each other and are kept together

Why isn’t Elie sure about reciting the Kaddish?

• He is losing faith in God

• The prayer is reserved for rabbis to say

• He doesn’t know the words to the prayer

• The prayer is reserved for adults to say

What tattoos do the prisoners receive?

• They are tattooed with their concentration camp’s name

• They are tattooed with an identification letter/number pattern

• They are tattooed with their barrack’s name

• They are tattooed with their prison guard’s name

Who treats Elie nicely? After the war, he later sees this person on a train.

• A French girl at his job place

• Idek, his boss

• A doctor at the German hospital

•  A young boy who he works alongside