Night by Elie Wiesel

Why did Elie Wiesel feel compelled to write this book?

• To honor his parents and his sister Tzipora.

• He felt that since he survived he was meant to write this book.

• To save his sanity or to venture into insanity to understand what he witnessed.

• To write a record of the holocaust and help preserve it's identity and help people not forget the horrible tragedies that happened during it.

What role did Moshie the Beadle play in Elie's life?

• He served as a religious teacher and later as a warning to Elie and tried to warn him of the Nazi's.

• He served as a father figure and helped care for him after his father died.

• He wasn't that important.

• He was his school teacher and helped Elie grow his love of literature.

Was Elie's father the most attentive to his children?

• No

• Yes

Where did Elie's father hide their valuables?

• In the backyard

• In the atic

• Beneith the cellar

What was Elie's father doing when he was interrupted by Stern, and told to go to the community meeting where he learned of the liquidation of the Ghetto's?

• He was singing a song.

• He was dancing with Elie's mother.

• He was praying.

• He was telling a story.

Who tried to warn them of the dangers after they were told that the Ghetto's would be liquidated?

• Moshie the Beadle.

• An inspector of the Hungarian police/friend of the family.

• Batia Reich: a relative of Elie Wiesel.

• Elie's father.

When everyone was forced to stand outside in the sun to wait for the convoys to send them to the larger Ghetto, what did Elie and his sister do?

• Give out water to the people lined up, since they were allowed to move.

• Stood in line for hours.

• Gave out food to the people waiting in line.

• Try to fight against the Hungarian guards that were brutalizing the occupants of the Ghetto.

What did young people do while in the cattle cars?

• They hoarded water.

• They let go of their inhibition's.

• They cried because they were hungry.

• They tried to escape.

Why did Elie say, "A few more days and all of us would have started to scream."?

• Since the car was so packed, with so little food and water, along with Ms. Schachter's screaming. Everyone there was stretched to their wits ends and were almost put over the edge.

• They were being beaten, and wanted to scream out from pain.

• They were afraid of what would happen when they reached their destination of Auschwitz.

• They wanted to yell at Ms. Schacter for causing such a ruckus.

When they arrived in Birkenau and Elie says, "Strange-looking creatures, dressed in striped jackets and black pants, jumped into the wagon." What do you think these strange creature are?

• They are hallucinations caused by Elie's extreme de-hydration.

• They are hospital attendees that are looking for the sick.

• They are guards dressed in strange garbs to confuse and berate the prisoners.

• They are the prisoners of the concentration camp, and Elie describes them as strange-looking creatures as they have lost their humanity to him.