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Night by Elie Wiesel

Review Game. Night by Elie Wiesel. 1. What was the name of Eliezer’s village?. Answer: Sighet, Transylvania (Romania). 2. How old was Eliezer when he was deported from his village?. Answer: 14 (nearly 15). 3. In what year did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?. Answer: 1933.

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Night by Elie Wiesel

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  1. Review Game Nightby Elie Wiesel

  2. 1. What was the name of Eliezer’s village?

  3. Answer: Sighet, Transylvania (Romania)

  4. 2. How old was Eliezer when he was deported from his village?

  5. Answer: 14 (nearly 15)

  6. 3. In what year did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

  7. Answer: 1933

  8. 4. What event caused WWII to begin on September 1, 1939?

  9. Answer:German invasion of Poland

  10. 5. Who became Elie’s spiritual teacher?

  11. Answer: Moshe the Beadle

  12. 6. What did Eliezer and Moshe the Beadle study?

  13. Answer: the cabbala, mysticism

  14. 7. When was Eliezer liberated from Buchenwald?

  15. Answer: April 10, 1945

  16. 8. At the Wannsee Conference, Nazi officials turn over what plan to the government?

  17. Answer: “The Final Solution”

  18. 9. While being deported in the cattle cars, what did Madame Schachter envision?

  19. Answer: She cried out, “Fire!” She imagined the furnaces that the Jews were to see when they reached their first camp.

  20. 10. Identify the concentration camps in order from the camp that “introduced” him to the horror to the camp that liberated him.

  21. Answer: Birkenau, Auschwitz,Buna, Buchenwald

  22. 11. What number did Eliezer become so “after that [he] had no other name?”

  23. Answer: A-7713

  24. 12. Juliek told Eliezer: “But Idek the Kapo, has bouts of madness now and then, when it’s best to keep out of his way.” Eliezer got angry at his father for not “keeping out of Idek’s way,” what did that signify in Eliezer’s character?

  25. Answer:Eliezer had grown callous from the suffering he endured in the concentration camp.

  26. 13. Eliezer had hoped to keep his gold crown so that he could trade it for food. Describe what leads up to its being taken & explain what type of irony this is?

  27. Answer: Because Franek had been tormenting Eliezer’s father, Eliezer gives up his crown & he must give up a ration of bread. Cosmic irony: Eliezer believes he had free will.

  28. 14. What risk did the French girl take when she was helping Eliezer, and why was it a risk?

  29. Answer: She spoke to him in German. She had only spoken French; no one knew she could speak German. Because she has false documents, the Nazis did not think she was a Jew.

  30. 15. What was Eliezer’s inheritance?

  31. Answer: a knife & a spoon

  32. 16. What aspect of his life does Eliezer begin to question throughout his experience at the concentration camps?

  33. Answer: his faith

  34. 17. Eliezer said: “That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” How does this quote relate to the execution that he witnessed?

  35. Answer: He lost his faith as he witnessed the young boy, “sad-eyed angel” struggle between life & death as he was being hanged.

  36. 18. What literary term is exemplified by Eliezer’s statement: “I was a body. Perhaps less than that: a starved stomach?”

  37. Answer: metaphor

  38. 19. What type of irony corresponds with Eliezer’s choice when he was in the hospital? He left, and then 2 days later, the hospital was liberated.

  39. Answer: situational irony.Neither the audience nor the reader knows that those who are left behind will be freed.

  40. 20. Eliezer felt himself as “two entities” during the death march; what were those two entities?

  41. Answer: his mind/soul and his physical body

  42. 21. Why did Eliezer feel ashamed when his father had been taken to the crematory?

  43. Answer: His father’s last words were Eliezer’s name, and Eliezer did not respond.

  44. 22. What is the last image that Wiesel uses to end the novel?

  45. Answer: Eliezer looking into his reflection in the mirror—seeing a corpse staring back at him.

  46. 23. In Chapter 2, as the train approached Birkenau, 2 men told the Jews: “Conditions were good. Families would not be split up.” Explain why this is verbal irony.

  47. Answer: The men know that the families will be split up at Birkenau. They use verbal irony (deception) to give the Jews false hope.

  48. 24. What are two reasons that Schindler’s List was filmed in black & white?

  49. Answer:to enhance its realism;to create a tone of despair

  50. 25. When Commandant Goeth says, “Today is history,” what does HE mean?

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