Night

1. Night Review Exercises for Exam

2. Night Matrix:Complete the matrix by color-coding each box correctly.

3. Literary Techniques:Indicate the technique used in each quote by writing the letter(s) in the blank. • Irony D. Simile G. Imagery • Foreshadowing E. Metaphor H. External Conflict • Symbolism F. Personification I. Internal Conflict • “The street was like a market place that had suddenly been abandoned.” _______ • “Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.”_________ • The hanging of the young child. _______ • “In one moment of ultimate lucidity it seemed to me that we were damned souls wandering in the half-world, souls condemned to wander through space till the generations of man came to an end…” ________ • “Like the leader of the camp, he loved children.” _______ • “For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” ________ • “A great tidal wave of men came rolling onward and would have crushed me like an ant.” ________ • Madame Schachter screams, “Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh, that fire!” ________ • Elie’s father dies and Elie feels guilty and ashamed of his own behavior. ________

4. Elie Wiesel Moshe the Beadle Chlomo Wiesel Madame Schachter Madame Wiesel Tzipora Stein of Antwerp Dr. Mengele Martha Akiba Drumer “… fair hair well combed, a red coat over her arm, a little girl of seven. The bundle on her back was far too heavy for her. She gritted her teeth. She knew by now that it would be useless to complain.” “The only thing that keeps me alive… is that Reizel and the children are still alive. If it wasn’t for them, I couldn’t keep going.” “She was about fifty… Her husband and two eldest sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake. The separation had completely broken her.” “He was very poor and lived humbly… Nobody felt embarrassed by him… He was a past master in the art of making himself insignificant, of seeming invisible.” “(He) too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that (he) was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like him.” Quote Match:Match the character with the description.

5. Elie Wiesel Moshe the Beadle Chlomo Wiesel Madame Schachter Madame Wiesel Tzipora Stein of Antwerp Dr. Mengele Martha Akiba Drumer “… a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle; a conductor’s baton in his hand… The baton moved unremittingly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.” “She continued to scream, breathless, her voice broken by sobs. ‘Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!” “He had changed. There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked… of God or of the cabbala, but only of what he had seen.” “I don’t attach any importance to my life anymore. I’m alone. No, I wanted to come back and to warn you.” “… a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emotion… The Jewish community in Sighet held him in the greatest esteem. They often used to consult him about public matters and even about private ones.” Quote Match:Match the character with the description.