Night Review Questions with Correct Answers
8.) When and where does Elie Wiesel grow up? (city, country and time period) How old is he? -Answer- Ellie grew up in Transylvania, Sighet in the 1900s. He is twelve, almost
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Night Review Questions with Correct Answers
8.) When and where does Elie Wiesel grow up? (city, country and time period) How old is he? -Answer- Ellie grew up in Transylvania, Sighet in the 1900s. He is twelve, almost thirteen years old.
9.) Try to picture Elie's childhood. How is his childhood like yours and how is it different? -Answer- Ellie is religious, he studies and goes to school. The difference is how Ellie is more religious than I am, and that he grew up in Transylvania, whereas I was born in California.
10.) Who is "Moshe the Beadle" and why does Wiesel begin the story with him?Moshe the Beadle is Wiesel's religious education mentor and the clown of the town, which makes him not respected. He begins the story with him because it tells how into religion Wiesel is -Answer-
11.) What do Eliezer's parents and the other in the community think of Moshe? -Answer- The parents and the community think that Moshe was the clown of the town and don't think much of Moshe at all.
12.) Why does Elie spend so much time with Moshe? -Answer- Ellie spends a lot of time with Moshe because they can talk to other about religion comfortably and because they have a friendly relationship.
13.) What is Elie's father's profession? -Answer- Ellie's father is a store owner.
14.) Is Elie's father highly respected in the Jewish community? -Answer- Ellie's father is well respected in the Jewish community and a lot of people sought him for advice and help.
15.) What has happened to Moshe that caused a great change in him? -Answer- Moshe is forcibly taken out of town to kill him, and somehow he escapes, but he has already watched people dig their own graves and are shot into the holes they buried, as well as babies that are used for targeting practice.
16.) How does this experience change Moshe? -Answer- The experience changes Moshe because he loses faith in God, and he becomes depressed and loses the joy in his eyes.
17.) How does the rest of the community react when he tells them what has happened to him? -Answer- The community reacts by not believing him and thinking that he is lying, delusional, because he wants pity, or because he is going insane or crazy because they don't respect Moshe.
18.) 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? -Answer- The news of the daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad, and the preparation of the Second Front cause them to be optimistic because they thought that people were going to help the Jews and that the war was not going to be a war.
19.) With an ironic tone, Wiesel says, "Besides, people were interested in everything strategy, in diplomacy, in politics, in Zionism - but not their own fate." What does he mean? -Answer- Wiesel means that it was ironic that they had so much do to with the strategy and diplomacy and such with Hitler, but still think that they are exempt from the events and don't believe they are next.
20.) Berkovitz brings news from Budapest that anti -Answer- Semitism (hostility or discrimination against Jews) war is rampant. Why then, is "optimism soon revived"?- They were still optimistic of the situation because they thought that Hitler would stay in Budapest and still think that they are exempt from the events and from Hitler.
21.) Why do "the optimists rejoiced" even three days after the German soldiers appear in Sighet? -Answer- The optimists are jubilant because the Germans are being polite and speaking kindly and thinking that the Germans are befriending the Jews in Sighet.
22.) Why is celebrating Passover like playing a "comedy"? -Answer- Celebrating the Passover is like a comedy because their hearts aren't in the Passover because there are other things going on in the town.
23.) What does the following mean? "On the seventh day of Passover the curtain rose." -Answer- The quote, "On the seventh day of Passover the curtain rose," means that the Germans arrested the Jewish leaders of the town and suddenly the happiness is gone in the town. Then they enforce three decrees for the Jewish citizens.
24.) Name the decrees (laws) the Germans put into place. -Answer- The first edict was that the Jews were supposed to stay inside their houses for three days, otherwise they will die.- The second edict was that they had to give away all the money and valuables that they had or they would die.- The third edict was that all the Jews had to wear a yellow star to signify that they were Jewish.
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