Night Short Reading Comprehension Questions (Long Sheet) (Thanks David!)
Pages 3-22
1. Who is “Moishe the Beadle” and why does Wiesel begin the story with him?
Moishe is a Beadle, a sort of jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer. Perhaps the story begins with him because he is the one who warns all of the Jews in advance of their impending doom or because he was very important to Elie as he was like his mentor.
2. What do Eliezer’s parents and the others in the community think of Moishe?
They were fond of him, unlike other needy peoples.
3. What has happened to Moishe that caused a great change in him?
He was deported and barely survived a mass execution at the hands of the Nazis, was shot and left for dead and barely survived.
4. How do the rest of the community react when he tells them what has happened to him?
Nobody believed such atrocities could occur; they assumed he was lying, gone mad, etc.
5. The Jews of Sighet are optimistic because of the news they hear on the radio in late 1942 and 1943. What is the news and why are they so optimistic? Why were “the optimists” jubilant three days after the German soldiers appear in Sighet?
That there was no doubt that the Germans would eventually be defeated. They were optimistic because they believed it to be impossible for Hitler to exterminate an entire people and thus didn't’t worry. The optimists were jubilant after Germans appeared because they appeared calm and polite, some even kind, so they were thought of as no threat to them.
6. How do the Jews of Sighet generally feel about the ghettos?
They were not entirely afraid; in fact some thought it was a good thing, as the Jews were entirely amongst themselves. Bit by bit, life returned to normalcy.
7. Why do the Jews of Sighet think they are being deported? (P.14)
They were too close to the front.
8. What is the small ghetto like?
Much more chaotic than the larger; the inhabitants had been caught by surprise by the transports. It was not guarded so people could come and go as they please, and some people inside still voiced optimistic opinions.
9. How do the Jews (Elie and his family included) leave the second ghetto?
By train in cattle cars packed with people.
Pages 23-28
1. What does the German officer tell the Jews in the cattle car will happen if they try to escape?
“You will all be shot, like dogs.”
2. Who is Madame Schachter and why is she so upset? How do the others treat her?
Madame Schachter was an older Jew in the train who was a quiet, tense person. She is having visions of a huge fire and has presumably lost her mind. The other Jews treat her badly: they yell at her, gag her when she would not be quiet and physically attack her.
3. Where does the train stop? How has Schachter’s vision on the cattle car come true?
Auschwitz. Her vision has come true because there is a huge fire: that of the crematorium and the mass graves where numerous dead and dying Jews are being thrown into.
Pages 29-46
1. What is Elie’s last memory of his mother and Tzipora?
Being separated by the SS, his mother and Tzipora sent one way to their deaths and himself and his father sent into the camp.
2. What do the fathers warn their sons when they want to revolt?
That they mustn’t give up hope, even as the “sword now hangs over our heads. So taught our sages…”
3. What word does Elie repeat on page 34? Why do you think he does this?
Night. Probably to emphasize the massive and profound effect this single night were he saw the horrors of the Holocaust for the first time had on his views on virtually everything in his life.
4. How does the SS officer describe Auschwitz to Elie and the other prisoners? (P. 38)
“Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney.”
5. How does Elie feel when the gypsy inmate slaps his father?
Petrified, then remorseful at standing by and doing nothing as his father was struck.
6. What does Akiba Drumer say the reason they are in the camp? (P.45)
The camp is a test of God, to see if the Jews are capable of “Killing the Satan within ourselves.”
Pages 47-65
1. What is the name of the camp where Elie is now?
Buna.
2. Why does Idek beat Elie’s father and why is Elie angry at his father for getting beaten?
To “get even” with Elie for not giving him the gold tooth from his crown. Elie is angry because he listened to his father’s advice to not give end and only ended up waiting two weeks then losing his gold crown and a ration of bread for nothing.
3. Why does Elie give his father “Marching lessons”?
So that Idek will no longer beat his father for being unable to march in step.
4. Why are the prisoners “cheerful” after the bombing? (P.61)
The thought of German buildings being flattened and the now evident proof of German military defeat on numerous fronts offset the chance of death and filled them with confidence and joy.
5. Why are people hanged rather than shot or killed in some way?
To be a warning and an example to all other prisoners.
6. Why does Elie find the soup “Excellent” (P. 63) after one execution, but tasting of “corpses” after another? (P. 65)?
As the first victim was a grown man, Elie never felt much sadness and his death meant one less mouth to feed and more soup for everyone. The boy’s death, however, moved the crowd and Elie (To see such an atrocity was a sin) and the pipel’s grueling death was on his mind as he ate his soup that night.
Pages 66-84
1. How does Elie feel about God at this point? (P. 67)
Furious for allowing his people to be treated this way, and allowing them to be tortured and “watch our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces…”
2. Why doesn’t Elie fast during Yom Kippur?
First to please his father who had forbid him to fast. Second because there was no reason for him to fast as he no longer accepted God’s silence.
3. What was Dr. Mengele doing when he visits the camp? Why didn’t Elie get chosen?
Leading a “selection” that separated the weak, sick and unable to work Jews from the healthy ones. Elie didn’t get chosen because he was healthy enough and was too fast for them to write his number down anyways.
4. What “inheritance” gifts does Wiesel’s father give him and why? Why are they returned?
His knife and spoon because he was one of the unlucky chosen in the selection and his death was likely. They were returned because there was a second decisive selection which he passed, saving his life.
5. What has happened to Akiba Drumer’s faith in God?
After failing the second decisive selection he quickly lost his faith in God, he could not believe in God’s mercy after his torment and thus opened the “doors of death” on himself.
6. What does the “faceless neighbor” say about Hitler (P. 80-81)
“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the German people.” He believed Hitler would exterminate them all before midnight.
Pages 85-92
1. What does Wiesel mean by the observations of the SS men “Their fingers on the trigger, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure?”
They shot to kill without mercy and at the slightest provocation.
2. What does Elie compare himself to and how does it help him keep running?
A machine and it allows him to separate his battered body from his mind and focus on not thinking and just running.
3. When Elie wants to die what ironically is the only thing able to stop him?
His father’s presence beside him.
4. In what ways are Wiesel and the other Jews who keep rushing onwards “masters of nature” (87) - then in the morning “without strength, without illusions”?
The Jews, tired and weak were able to outlast the SS running alongside of them because they were used to such pain and had “transcended everything - death, fatigue, our natural needs”. In the morning, however, they realize the amount of time that has past and really begin to feel the effects of running for such a long period of time.
5. How does Wiesel identify with the situation that Rabbi Eliahou has with his own son and continues to look for him?
He hopes to never become like the son and view his own father as a burden that hampered his chances of survival.
6. Why is Juliek playing his violin in this terrible situation?
To soothe the tired and dying Jews.
7. How does Wiesel’s father avoid being “selected” at Gleiwitz and why does Wiesel run after him?
Elie creates a brief moment of confusion by running after him, enough for them to slip away and into the “safe” selection lane. He ran after him because he realized his father was being sent to his death and saved him.
Pages 98-103
1. For what simple reasons were the living “glad” when the order comes to throw out the corpses?
For more room.
2. What spectacle happened years after in Aden reminding Elie of the bread throwing incident?
A Parisian lady throwing coins to the natives and watching them strangle each other.
3. How old is Elie at this point?
Sixteen.
4. What does everyone on the wagon to Buchenwald do to avoid death?
Got up and moved around to avoid freezing to death.
Pages 104-113
1. Why is it that Wiesel “could have screamed in anger” when his father begs to rest upon arrival at Buchenwald?
He did not want his father to succumb to the elements and die after enduring so much and finally reaching a rest stop.
2. How does Elie feel when he wakes up and can’t find his father?
Ashamed at feeling slightly relieved that he might not have to worry about him any longer.
3. What does Elie mean when he says “I had not passed the test” (107)?
He, like the Rabbi’s son now saw his father as dead weight, hurting his chances of survival.
4. How does the Blockalteste describe the concentration camp to Elie? (110)
It is every man for himself. Each of us lives and dies alone. Stop giving your father your rations, there is nothing to be done for him. This is a concentration camp. You can’t think of others if you want to survive.
5. How does Elie feel when his father finally dies? Why do you think he feels this way?
Relieved, he thinks he is “Free at last!”. Probably because of the way his father hampered his survival chances and the guilt he caused when Elie thought of himself over his father i.e. taking his ration for himself.
Pages 113-115
1. At the beginning of this chapter, what is the only thing Elie thinks about?
Soup.
2. What announcement was made about the Buchenwald camp?
It would be liquidated, with ten blocks of inmates evacuated every day.
3. What was the only thing they had eaten in six days?
Stalks of grass and potato peels.
4. So naturally, what was the first thing the prisoners did when the American tanks stood at the gates of Buchenwald?
Threw themselves onto the provisions.
5. What is the meaning behind the paradoxical statement, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me”?
Despite Elie surviving the Holocaust, the suffering he endured during his ordeal both physically and spiritually has left a very visible mark in his appearance. Despite living, he has the look of death upon him.
1. Who is “Moishe the Beadle” and why does Wiesel begin the story with him?
Moishe is a Beadle, a sort of jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer. Perhaps the story begins with him because he is the one who warns all of the Jews in advance of their impending doom or because he was very important to Elie as he was like his mentor.
2. What do Eliezer’s parents and the others in the community think of Moishe?
They were fond of him, unlike other needy peoples.
3. What has happened to Moishe that caused a great change in him?
He was deported and barely survived a mass execution at the hands of the Nazis, was shot and left for dead and barely survived.
4. How do the rest of the community react when he tells them what has happened to him?
Nobody believed such atrocities could occur; they assumed he was lying, gone mad, etc.
5. The Jews of Sighet are optimistic because of the news they hear on the radio in late 1942 and 1943. What is the news and why are they so optimistic? Why were “the optimists” jubilant three days after the German soldiers appear in Sighet?
That there was no doubt that the Germans would eventually be defeated. They were optimistic because they believed it to be impossible for Hitler to exterminate an entire people and thus didn't’t worry. The optimists were jubilant after Germans appeared because they appeared calm and polite, some even kind, so they were thought of as no threat to them.
6. How do the Jews of Sighet generally feel about the ghettos?
They were not entirely afraid; in fact some thought it was a good thing, as the Jews were entirely amongst themselves. Bit by bit, life returned to normalcy.
7. Why do the Jews of Sighet think they are being deported? (P.14)
They were too close to the front.
8. What is the small ghetto like?
Much more chaotic than the larger; the inhabitants had been caught by surprise by the transports. It was not guarded so people could come and go as they please, and some people inside still voiced optimistic opinions.
9. How do the Jews (Elie and his family included) leave the second ghetto?
By train in cattle cars packed with people.
Pages 23-28
1. What does the German officer tell the Jews in the cattle car will happen if they try to escape?
“You will all be shot, like dogs.”
2. Who is Madame Schachter and why is she so upset? How do the others treat her?
Madame Schachter was an older Jew in the train who was a quiet, tense person. She is having visions of a huge fire and has presumably lost her mind. The other Jews treat her badly: they yell at her, gag her when she would not be quiet and physically attack her.
3. Where does the train stop? How has Schachter’s vision on the cattle car come true?
Auschwitz. Her vision has come true because there is a huge fire: that of the crematorium and the mass graves where numerous dead and dying Jews are being thrown into.
Pages 29-46
1. What is Elie’s last memory of his mother and Tzipora?
Being separated by the SS, his mother and Tzipora sent one way to their deaths and himself and his father sent into the camp.
2. What do the fathers warn their sons when they want to revolt?
That they mustn’t give up hope, even as the “sword now hangs over our heads. So taught our sages…”
3. What word does Elie repeat on page 34? Why do you think he does this?
Night. Probably to emphasize the massive and profound effect this single night were he saw the horrors of the Holocaust for the first time had on his views on virtually everything in his life.
4. How does the SS officer describe Auschwitz to Elie and the other prisoners? (P. 38)
“Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney.”
5. How does Elie feel when the gypsy inmate slaps his father?
Petrified, then remorseful at standing by and doing nothing as his father was struck.
6. What does Akiba Drumer say the reason they are in the camp? (P.45)
The camp is a test of God, to see if the Jews are capable of “Killing the Satan within ourselves.”
Pages 47-65
1. What is the name of the camp where Elie is now?
Buna.
2. Why does Idek beat Elie’s father and why is Elie angry at his father for getting beaten?
To “get even” with Elie for not giving him the gold tooth from his crown. Elie is angry because he listened to his father’s advice to not give end and only ended up waiting two weeks then losing his gold crown and a ration of bread for nothing.
3. Why does Elie give his father “Marching lessons”?
So that Idek will no longer beat his father for being unable to march in step.
4. Why are the prisoners “cheerful” after the bombing? (P.61)
The thought of German buildings being flattened and the now evident proof of German military defeat on numerous fronts offset the chance of death and filled them with confidence and joy.
5. Why are people hanged rather than shot or killed in some way?
To be a warning and an example to all other prisoners.
6. Why does Elie find the soup “Excellent” (P. 63) after one execution, but tasting of “corpses” after another? (P. 65)?
As the first victim was a grown man, Elie never felt much sadness and his death meant one less mouth to feed and more soup for everyone. The boy’s death, however, moved the crowd and Elie (To see such an atrocity was a sin) and the pipel’s grueling death was on his mind as he ate his soup that night.
Pages 66-84
1. How does Elie feel about God at this point? (P. 67)
Furious for allowing his people to be treated this way, and allowing them to be tortured and “watch our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces…”
2. Why doesn’t Elie fast during Yom Kippur?
First to please his father who had forbid him to fast. Second because there was no reason for him to fast as he no longer accepted God’s silence.
3. What was Dr. Mengele doing when he visits the camp? Why didn’t Elie get chosen?
Leading a “selection” that separated the weak, sick and unable to work Jews from the healthy ones. Elie didn’t get chosen because he was healthy enough and was too fast for them to write his number down anyways.
4. What “inheritance” gifts does Wiesel’s father give him and why? Why are they returned?
His knife and spoon because he was one of the unlucky chosen in the selection and his death was likely. They were returned because there was a second decisive selection which he passed, saving his life.
5. What has happened to Akiba Drumer’s faith in God?
After failing the second decisive selection he quickly lost his faith in God, he could not believe in God’s mercy after his torment and thus opened the “doors of death” on himself.
6. What does the “faceless neighbor” say about Hitler (P. 80-81)
“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the German people.” He believed Hitler would exterminate them all before midnight.
Pages 85-92
1. What does Wiesel mean by the observations of the SS men “Their fingers on the trigger, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure?”
They shot to kill without mercy and at the slightest provocation.
2. What does Elie compare himself to and how does it help him keep running?
A machine and it allows him to separate his battered body from his mind and focus on not thinking and just running.
3. When Elie wants to die what ironically is the only thing able to stop him?
His father’s presence beside him.
4. In what ways are Wiesel and the other Jews who keep rushing onwards “masters of nature” (87) - then in the morning “without strength, without illusions”?
The Jews, tired and weak were able to outlast the SS running alongside of them because they were used to such pain and had “transcended everything - death, fatigue, our natural needs”. In the morning, however, they realize the amount of time that has past and really begin to feel the effects of running for such a long period of time.
5. How does Wiesel identify with the situation that Rabbi Eliahou has with his own son and continues to look for him?
He hopes to never become like the son and view his own father as a burden that hampered his chances of survival.
6. Why is Juliek playing his violin in this terrible situation?
To soothe the tired and dying Jews.
7. How does Wiesel’s father avoid being “selected” at Gleiwitz and why does Wiesel run after him?
Elie creates a brief moment of confusion by running after him, enough for them to slip away and into the “safe” selection lane. He ran after him because he realized his father was being sent to his death and saved him.
Pages 98-103
1. For what simple reasons were the living “glad” when the order comes to throw out the corpses?
For more room.
2. What spectacle happened years after in Aden reminding Elie of the bread throwing incident?
A Parisian lady throwing coins to the natives and watching them strangle each other.
3. How old is Elie at this point?
Sixteen.
4. What does everyone on the wagon to Buchenwald do to avoid death?
Got up and moved around to avoid freezing to death.
Pages 104-113
1. Why is it that Wiesel “could have screamed in anger” when his father begs to rest upon arrival at Buchenwald?
He did not want his father to succumb to the elements and die after enduring so much and finally reaching a rest stop.
2. How does Elie feel when he wakes up and can’t find his father?
Ashamed at feeling slightly relieved that he might not have to worry about him any longer.
3. What does Elie mean when he says “I had not passed the test” (107)?
He, like the Rabbi’s son now saw his father as dead weight, hurting his chances of survival.
4. How does the Blockalteste describe the concentration camp to Elie? (110)
It is every man for himself. Each of us lives and dies alone. Stop giving your father your rations, there is nothing to be done for him. This is a concentration camp. You can’t think of others if you want to survive.
5. How does Elie feel when his father finally dies? Why do you think he feels this way?
Relieved, he thinks he is “Free at last!”. Probably because of the way his father hampered his survival chances and the guilt he caused when Elie thought of himself over his father i.e. taking his ration for himself.
Pages 113-115
1. At the beginning of this chapter, what is the only thing Elie thinks about?
Soup.
2. What announcement was made about the Buchenwald camp?
It would be liquidated, with ten blocks of inmates evacuated every day.
3. What was the only thing they had eaten in six days?
Stalks of grass and potato peels.
4. So naturally, what was the first thing the prisoners did when the American tanks stood at the gates of Buchenwald?
Threw themselves onto the provisions.
5. What is the meaning behind the paradoxical statement, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me”?
Despite Elie surviving the Holocaust, the suffering he endured during his ordeal both physically and spiritually has left a very visible mark in his appearance. Despite living, he has the look of death upon him.
Night Reading Comprehension Questions Chapters 1-9 (Thanks Brittany)
Night: Chapter 1
2. Where and when did the story begin?
This story begins in the village of Sighet in 1941.
3. How many ghettos were established in Sighet?
Two ghettos were established in Sighet- a larger one on Serpent Street where Elie lived as well as another smaller one.
4.What disheartening news that Elie’s father, an important council member, learn early and then share with his Jewish neighborhood?
The disheartening news that Elie’s father learned early and then shared with his Jewish neighborhood was that transports would take place and the ghetto would be liquidated.
5. How much was each person allowed to take with him or her?
Each person was allowed to take a backpack, some food, and a few items of clothing with him or her.
6. In the spring of 1944, what suggestion did Elie propose to his father and how was it received?
The suggestion that Elie propsed to his father was to sell and liquidate everything, and to leave. But Elie’s father did not agree as he said he was too old to start new and begin another life someplace new.
7. After returning to Sighet, what was Moishe’s mission?
After returning to Sighet, Moishe’s mission was to ''describe his death so that the people could ready themselves while there is still time''.
9. After listing the new decrees forbidding Jews from attending restuarants and synagogues, what foreshadowing line did the author write?
The foreshadowing line the author wrote was ''the yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal...''. The author then writes ''poor father! Of what then did you die?''.
10. At the train station, what type of cars were the Jews loaded into?
At the train station, the Jews were loaded into small cattle cars like dogs.
11. Who became Elie’s master to guide him in his studies of the Kabbalah?
Moishe the Beadle became Elie's master to guide him in his studies of the Kabbalah.
12. What did Elie’s parents do for a living?
Elie's parents ran a store for a living.
13. How many sisters and brothers did Elie have?
Elie and 3 sisters; Hilda, Bea and Tzipora. He had no brothers.
14. What happened on the seventh day of passover?
What happened on the seventh day of passover was that the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community.
15. How did Moishe the Beadle escape his near death?
Moishe the Beadle escaped his near death because ''he was wounded in the leg, and left for dead''.
16. What happened in Sighet shortly after the Fascist party came into power?
What happened in Sighet shortly after the Fascist party came into power was the ''German army vehicles made their appearance on our streets''.
17. What separated the Jewish ghettos from the rest of the community?
What separated the Jewish ghettos from the rest of the community was deadly barbed wire.
18. How was Moishe’s information received?
Moishe's information was received in the way that the community thought he went mad and they did not believe him.
19. What happened to the deported Jews?
What happened to the deported Jews was that they were sent to the deadly concentration camps.
20. Describe the weather on deportation day.
The weather on deportation day was very hot and sunny on deportation day. The community was filed on the streets in the blistering heat.
Night: Chapters 2-3
1. What was the camp's motto?
The camps work motto was Arebit Macht Freit or ''Work makes you free''.
2.How old was Elie and his father, truthfully?
Truthfully, Elie was fifteen years old and he father was fifty years old.
3. What was Birkenau?
Auschwitz-Birkenau was one of the first concentration camps Elie was a prisoner in.
4. What eight-word command separated the Weisel family forever?
The eight-word command that separated the Weisel family forever was ''men to the left
Women to the right!''.
5. What ages did two unexposed prisoners advice the Weisels to use?
The ages that the two unexposesd prisoners told the Weisels to use were eighteen for Elie
and fourty for his father.
6. Why did Elie conclude that Auschwitz might be better than Birkenau?
Elie concluded that Auschwitz might be better than Birkenau because there were cement
buildings rather than wooden barracks and there were little gardens here and there.
7. What hopeful report was shared among the group by the way the two men who fetched
water?
The hopeful report shared among the group by the way the two men who fetched the
water was that ''the conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the
young would work in factories. The old and sick would find work in the fields''.
8. How can one infer that Elie's father also lied about his age and occupation?
One can infer that Elie's father also lied about his age and occupation because he made it
through the very first selection with the notorious Dr.Mengele.
9.What did they receive at the third barracks?
They recieved a blanket, a wash bowl and a bar of soap.
10. What work did the SS officers select the sturdiest Jewish men for?
The work the SS officers selected the sturdiest Jewish men for was to work in the creamatorims. They cremated other prisoners but they escaped their own deaths for a little while.
11. Where did the train finally stopped?
The train finally stopped in Buna which was another concentration camp.
12. Desribe the floor of the third barracks.
The floor in the third barracks was very muddy, and hardly no floor at all. It looked like the men lived like pigs.
13. Infer why the relative Stein from Antwerp always brought along some of his rationed food when he came to visit Elie and his father.
The relative Stein from Antwerp always brought along some of his rationed food when he came to visit Elie and his father because Elie looked weak, and the weak did not have a chance. Stein also got separated from his own son.
14. When as SS officer entered Elie's barracks, announcing they were in a concentration camp, what choice did he give the prisoners?
When an SS officer entered Elie's barracks, announcing they were in a concentration camp, the choice he gave the prisoners was ''work or crematorium''.
15. What metaphor did the author use to describe their cattle car, nailed shut by the German officers?
The metaphor the auther used to describe their cattle car was ''the world has become a hermetically sealed cattle car''.
16. What happened at the second barracks?
What happened at the second barracks was that they had their long awaited showers. They were also soaked in disinfectant.
17. Why was Elie grateful for the mud?
Elie was grateful for the mud because the mud concealed his pair of shoes. The prisoners were forced to give up their shoes but Elie didnt have to because they were hidden in the mud.
18. Once Elie and his fellow prisoners arrived at their assigned barracks, what orders did they receive?
Once Elie and his fellow prisoners arrived at their assinged barracks, the orders they received were ''strip! Hurry up! Raus! Hold only on to your belt and your shoes....".
19. What number was Elie engraved with at Auschwitz?
The number Elie would be forever engraved with at Auschwitz was A-7713.
20. What age and occupation did Elie give the SS officer?
The age and occupation Elie gave the SS officer was eighteen and a farmer.
Night: Chapter 4
1. What feeling emerged in the prisoners as a result of the bombs, and why?
The feelings that emerged in the prisoners as a result of the bombs were that they were happy because they thought the concentration camp would eventually be liberated.
2. Where did all the guards and prisoners go whenever there was an air raid?
Whenever there was an air raid, all the guards and prisoners went inside the blocks so the prisoners could not escape as it was easy to do so.
3. After being denied Elie's crowned tooth, how did Franek ''get even''?
After being denied Elie's crowned tooth, Franek ''gets even'' by tormenting Elie's father, and thrashing him savagely for marching out of step.
4. Why did the prisoners try to stay out of Idek the Kapo's way?
The prisoners tried to stay out of Ide the Kapo's way because he had random fits of anger and he took it out on anyone who was in his line of fire.
5. How did Idek punish Elie for ''meddling'' in his private affairs?
Idek punished Elie for ''medding'' in his private affairs by making him lie on a crate in front of everyone and whipped him repeated times.
6. What was ironic about Elie's feelings when his own father became the target of Idek's anger?
What was ironic about Elie's feelings when his own father became the target of Idek's anger was that Elie was more angry at his father then he was at Idek.
7. How was Idek ''caught'' with a polish girl?
Idek was ''caught'' with the polish girl when Elie was meddling when he heard laughing coming from the back room.
8. What happened to the starving prisoner who crawled from Block 37 to the steaming cauldron of soup during the air raid?
What happend to the starving prisoner who crawled from Block 37 to the steaming cauldron of soup during the air raid was that he was shot and killed right on the spot.
9. Why was Elie summoned to the dentist at the hospital?
Elie was summoned to the dentist at the hopsital because he didn't give the dentist his gold-crowned tooth.
10. Aside from the camp dentist, who else requested Elie's gold-crowned tooth?
Another prisoner requested Elie's gold-crowned tooth, Franek, a former student in Warsaw.
11. Did Elie finally surrender his gold-crowned tooth?
Yes, Elie finally surrendered his gold-crowned tooth. He let Franek have it so he would stop tourturing his father for not being able to march in step.
12. After punishing Elie, what threat did Idek give the man?
The threat that Idek gave the man was ''so much for your curiosity. You shall receive five times more if you dare tell anyone what you saw''.
13. What happened to Elie's dentist a few days after his visit?
What happend to Elie's dentist a few days after his vist was that he was thrown into prison and hanged for dealing the the prisoner's gold teeth for his own benefit.
14. Why did Idek the Kapo make all the prisoners in Elie's unit work in the warehouse on a Sunday?
Idek the Kapo made all the prisoners in Elie's unit work in the warehouse on a Sunday so Ide could force himself sexually on the young Polish girl.
15. How did the prisoners react to the little assistant's hanging?
The prisoners were very distraught over the hanging of the little assistant.
16. What were the last words of a youthful, strong young man from Warsaw, who was hung for stealing?
The last words of the youthful, strong young man from Warsaw, who was hung for stealing were ''long live liberty! My curse on Germany! My Curse! My......".
17. Give three reasons why the hanging of the Dutchman's young assistant, or pipel, was so somber and shameful.
Three reasons why the hanging of the Dutchman's young assistant was so somber and shameful were because; the hanging of a small child is not a small matter, the child struggled between life and death for a long time because he was to small to be held by the rope, and Elie and the other prisoners were forced to look at him.
18. How did Elie manage to delay his dental work several times?
Elie managed to delay his dental work several times because he made up an excuse that he was not feeling well, as well, the dentist was eventually jailed and hanged.
Night: Chapter 5
1. What happened a few days into the new year?
What happened a few days into the new year was that selections would be taking place.
2. Did Elie's father pass he second and decisive selection?
Yes, Elie's father did pass the second and more decisive selection.
3. What warm gesture did Elie bestow upon his father on New Year's Day?
The warm gesture that Elie bestowed upon his father on New Year's day was a kiss on his hand.
4. What custom did the people of the Jewish faith usually carry out on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement?
The custom the people of the Jewish faith usually carry out on Yom Kippur is fasting.
5. Including Elie's father, how many men's numbers were recorded from the selection process?
Including Elie's father, ten numbers were recorded from the selection process.
6. Why were prisoners ordered to wash the block's wooden floor before evacuating?
Prisoners were ordered to wash the block's wooden fllor before evacuating because they had to prove to the Russians they didn't live like dirty pigs. ''Let them know that here lived men, not pigs''.
7. How long was Elie supposed to remain hospitalized?
Elie was supposed to remain hospitalized for two weeks for a full recovery.
8. What advice did the head of Elie's block suggest, if one wanted to pass the selection process?
The advice the head of Elie's block suggested if one wanted to pass the selection process was ''try to move your limbs, give yourself some color. Don't walk slowly, run! And most important, don't be afraid!''.
9. Why did Elie's Hungarian Jew roomate regard Hitler as a prophet?
Elie's Hungarian Jew roomate regared Hitler as a prophet because ''he alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people''.
10. What expresson did Elie find on his father's face, just after the warm gesture was received?
The expression that Elie found of his father's face, just after the warm gesture was received was nothing but simple defeat.
11. What choice did Elie and his father make?
The choice Elie and his father made was to be evacuated with the others.
12. Why was Elie was admitted to the hospital?
Elie was admitted to the hospital because his ''right foot began to swell from the cold''.
13. Why did Elie refuse to offer up any prayers to God when everyone gathered together on New Year's Day?
Elie refused to offer up any prayers to God on New Year's Day because he was very angry with God for creating a place with a crematorium.
14. List the two choices Elie and his father were given?
The two choices Elie and his father were given were ''to stay,both of us, in the infirmary'' or to be evacuated with the other prisoners.
15. What happened during the ''selection process''?
What happened during the ''selection process'' was that Elie passed because he ran so fast, but his father did not pass.
16. Give two reasons why Elie didn't follow the usual tradition on Yom Kippur.
Two reasons why Elie didn't follow the usual tradition on Yom Kippur was because he wanted to please his father who forbade Elie to fast, and he ''no longer accepted God's silence''.
17. When Elie saw his father, and learned that the SS had him remain behind, what items did hs father give him as his inheritance?
When Elie saw his father, and learned that the SS man had him remain behind, the items that his father gave him as his inheritance were a knife and a spoon.
18. What did Elie use as footwear for his recovering right foot?
Elie used his blanket that he torea torn as footwear for his recovering right foot.
19. What new work was Elie required to do in his new block?
The new work that Elie was required to do in his new conctruction block was to haul heavy slabs of stone.
20. What did Rabbi Akiba Drumer ask of his fellow prisoners, as he left for the crematory at Birkenau?
What Rabbi Akiba Drumer asked of his fellow prisoners, as he left for the crematory at Birkneau was to say Kaddish for him. But his fellow prisoners forgot.
Night: Chapters 6-9
1. In what way did the sirens bring relief to the weary prisoners?
The sirens brought relief to the weary prisoners because the guards had to bring everyone inside the blocks. This enabled the prisoners to sleep.
2. What did Elie discover when he awoke from his first night at Gleiwitz?
What Elie discovered when he awoke from his first night at Gleiwitz was that Juliek had passed away.
3. How did Juliek soothe and relieve the crowded, dying prisoners of the barracks?
Julike soothed and relieved the crowded, dying prisoners of the barracks by playing his violin.
4. Why was Elie hospitalized three days after liberation?
Elie was hospitalized three days after liberation because he suffered from some type of poisoning.
5. What was Elie's ultimate desire once his father died?
Elie's ultimate desire once his father died was to eat.
6. What happened at 6:00, on the evening of April 10th?
What happened at 6:00 on the evening of April 10th was that ''the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald''.
7. How did the author personify death on page 82 of Chapter 6?
The author personified death by saying ''As for me, I was not thinking about death but about not wanting to be seperated from my father''.
8. What deadly, sick, game did the German workmen find entertaining?
The deadly, sick, game the German workmen found entertaining was pouring pieces of bread into the cattle car, just to watch the prisoners die over them.
9. Why did the Polish lad, Zalman, collapse in the snow?
The Polish lad, Zalman, collpased in the snow because he said ''my stomach is bursting''.
10. When the prisoners finally came to rest, where did many, including Elie and his father, find shelter?
When the prisoners finally came to rest, many including Elie and his father found rest in a shed in the abandoned village.
11. Why was Elie's father almost thrown off the train, when it stopped in the middle of a deserted field?
Elie's father was almost thrown off the train when it stopped in the middle of a deserted field because he would not wake up, so the prisoners in charge of the throwing people of the train thought he was dead.
12. When the guards passed out bread rations, what did the prisoners eat as a unique beverage?
When the guards passed out bread rations, the prisoners ate snow as the unique beverage.
13. How did the camp resistance save many Jewish lives, including Elie's, on April 10th?
The camp resistance saved many Jewish lives, incluing Elie's on April 10th because a Jewish resistance attacked the remaining SS officers where they had another evauation planned.
14. How long did the men stay at Gleiwitz, without food and water?
The men stayed at Gleiwitz for three days without any food or water.
15. What happened to any prisoner who could not keep up with the evacuation pace?
What happened to any prisoner who could not keep up with the evacuation pace was that they were shot by the SS men.
16. How did the SS guards react when the sirens sounded and the prisoners were in line for hot showers?
When the sirens sounded while the prisoners were in line for hot showers, the SS guards reacted by chasing the prisoners toward their blocks.
17. How many days did the prisoners travel non-stop from Gleiwitz?
The prisoners traveled many days and nights non-stop from Gleiwitz.
18. What did Elie find in his father's bunk on the morning of Janurary 29, 1945?
What Elie found in his father's bunk on the morning of Janurary 29, 1945 was another sick person.
19. What method of transportation took the prisoners away from Gleiwitz?
The method of transportation that took the prisoners away from Gleiwitz was by train.
20. One hundred men entered Elie's cattle car in Gleiwitz, but how many prisoners arrived at Buchenwald?
Only twelve prisoners arrived at Buchenwald including Elie and his father.