NIGHT Vocab for Winter Exam

Elie's father told a/an _____, or his own stories, expounding on his own views of the situations as to why they would be gathered into ghettos.

• spectacle

• anecdote

• timid

• ghettos

We hid as the soldiers _____ our houses, looking for anything of value they could take.

• emaciated

• alleged

• notorious

• pillaged

Before Elie and the other Jews were taken away to the concentration camps, two ____ were created in his hometown: Four streets housed 10,000 Jews in Sighet.

• nocturnal

• spectacle

• ghettos

• vigilance

As Elie and the other prisoners traveled by train, they described the sound of the train as ____.

• solemn

• monotonous

• cynical

• pious

Moshe the Beadle could be described as ____. He was fully committed to mysticism and Judaism.

• pious

• nocturnal

• emaciated

• cynical

Dr. Mengele, often referred to as the Angel of Death, was ____ for inhumane experiments on the prisoners.

• oppression

• pillaged

• notorious

• alleged

There was no ____ behaviour at the concentration camps as the prisoners were too tired from their daily labor.

• spectacle

• timid

• alleged

• nocturnal

In Night, the ____ from the Nazi party dehumanized Elie, his dad, and all the other prisoners.

• oppression

• anecdote

• solemn

• timid

The pipel is hanged for his ____ sabotage linked to the significant amount of weapons found.

• solemn

• spectacle

• alleged

• emaciated

In the beginning of the novel, the prisoners were still ____ in their responses to those who died.

• timid

• solemn

• cynical

• notorious