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Night Reading Questions Chapter 1

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1. Who is Moishe the Beadle?

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2. What does Elie want to do?

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3. Name the members of Elie’s family:

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4. What do Wiesel’s parents do?

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5. What happens to Moishe and all other foreign-born Jews on page 6?

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6. What happens to Moishe specifically?

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7. It says that Moishe kept telling his story, but that “people not only refused to believe his

tales, they refused to listen” (7). Why would they do this?

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8. On page 8, it says that the people thought that “ Hitler will not be able to harm us, even

if he wants to….Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed

throughout so many nations? In the middle of the 20th century?”

What does “annihilate” mean? How do you know (text clues)?

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“Dispersed”? How do you know (text clues)?

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9. How many days after the Germans penetrated Hungary’s borders did they arrive in

Sighet? ____

10. On page 10, it says that, “From that moment on everything happened very quickly”.

What was the first edict?

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Name_____________________________

Who is Moishe the Beadle?
What does Elie want to do?
Name the members of Elie’s family:
What do Wiesel’s parents do?
What happens to Moishe and all other foreign-born Jews on page 6?
What happens to Moishe specifically?
It says that Moishe kept telling his story, but that “people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen” (7). Why would they do this?
On page 8, it says that the people thought that “ Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to….Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? In the middle of the 20th^ century?” What does “annihilate” mean? How do you know (text clues)?

“Dispersed”? How do you know (text clues)?
How many days after the Germans penetrated Hungary’s borders did they arrive in Sighet? ____
On page 10, it says that , “From that moment on everything happened very quickly”. What was the first edict?

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What are the Jewish families not allow to have next?
What is the second edict?
You now know one person who dies already. Who is it?
What are the next 4 edicts?

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What words on page 16 show the inhumanity of the officers gathering up the Jews?
Is Elie’s faith still strong at this point? How do you know? (pg. 18)
What does Elie’s sister look like? (pg.19)
How do the evicted people get to where they are going? Where do they go? (pg. 20)
MAJOR IMAGERY AND THEME HINT: top of page 21 “NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes”. Explain.
The next header says “Saturday”. What does this tell you about the timeline of the story? (p. 21)
At the end of the chapter, the evacuees are forced to be prisoners in what is left of their place of worship on their weekly holy day. They are forced to “use the restroom” inside the church, then they are herded into railroad __________________________cars with _______ people to a car. They are given some bread and a few pails of ________________________ One person is placed in charge and told that is anyone escapes, that person will be ____________________. And here is where we descend into hell on Earth……

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