Night Study Guide

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Night by Elie Wiesel Name ________________________________ Study Guide Date _________________ Preview 1. What are the 10 core concepts; give a brief description of each. 2. What is totalitarianism? 3. What three policies did the Nazis implement as their plan to deal with the Jewish Question evolved? 4. What were the Nuremburg Laws? 5. What was Kristallnacht? 6. What are Einsatzgruppen? 7. Which two European countries were most successful at saving their Jewish populations? 8. How many Jews survived in Poland? 9. How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust? 10. What other groups did the Nazis persecute? (5) 11. What was the original title of the novel, Night? 12. What are the five motifs/themes found in the novel? 13. What point of view is the novel written in? Chapter 1 14. Write an example of a simile found on page 1. 15. What does Elie desire to study? 16. Who does he get to help him? 17. What happens to Moshe the Beadle? 18. What does Moshe say happened while he was away? 19. Why don’t any of the townspeople believe Moshe? 20. What kind of position does Elie’s father have in the community? 21. What kind of relationship do Elie and his father have at the beginning of the novel? 22. Where are the Jews sent first after the arrival of the German soldiers? 23. Provide an example of a simile and a metaphor from page 15. Chapter 2 24. What news do they then receive of where they are to be located? 25. How many people ride on each train car? 26. What does Madame Schachter imagine she sees? 27. Name the literary device Madame Schachter’s “vision” is an example of. Chapter 3 28. What happens to Elie’s family when they reach the camp?
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