Night

Chapter One
1. In what country does the narrative begin?
2. Describe Moishe.
3. What does Wiesels statement believed profoundly tell you about him as a young
boy?
4. Describe Wiesels father.
5. Why does Wiesel weep?
6. Explain:
There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth.
Every human being has his own gate. We must never make the mistake of wanting to
enter the orchard by any other gate but our own. To do this is dangerous for one who
enters and also for those who are already there.
7. How do the villagers respond to Moishe when he returns?
8. Why doesnt Wiesels father emigrate to Palestine?
9. Why dont the villagers believe the tales of the attacks against the Jews?
10. What freedoms do the Germans take from the villagers?
11. What is his fathers reaction to the yellow star?
12. What does the villagers setting up a government in the ghetto tell you about them?
13. What is a premonition?
14. What is the knocking on the window?
15. Why have their possessions lost their value?
16. What does Maria(Martha) beg them to do?
17. Why has the Jewish Council agreed to organize themselves?

Chapter Two
1. Why do they save their provisions?
2. What are they told to give up at the border?
3. How do the Germans prevent people from escaping?
4. What does Madame Schachter dream about? What does this foreshadow?
5. What is an abyss?
6. At what camp do they arrive?
7. What is the abominable smell?
8. What is Birkenau?

Chapter Three
1. What is an illusion?
2. Why are they told to lie about their age?
3. Of what teaching do the older prisoners remind the young? How does this affect their
behavior?
4. Who is Mengele?
5. How does Wiesel feel about God?
6. Why doesnt Wiesel believe what is happening?
7. Why does his father try not to call attention to himself? Why is this a good decision?
8. Describe the feelings of the prisoners after their first shower.
9. Who are the SonderKommando?
10. Explain:
The night was gone. The morning start was shining in the sky. I too had become a
completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been
consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame
had only entered into my soul and devoured it.

11. Why does he thank God for mud?

12. How does he react to his fathers beating?
13. What is the slogan over Auschwitz?
14. What advice does the Pole give them?
15. What does Wiesels refusal to eat tell you about him?
16. What is A-7713?
17. Why does he lie about Steins family? Is this the right thing to do?
18. How do they avoid leaving Auschwitz?
19. Why is the Pole replaced as the head of the prison block?
20. Why cant Wiesel pray? What doubts does he have about God?
21. What new camp are they sent to?
Chapter Four
1. Why do the officers take an interest in the children?
2. Why is a dentist examining the prisoners?
3. What job is Wiesel given at Buna?
4. What kind of person is Alphonse?
5. How does Wiesel keep his crown?
6. What does Wiesel say his main concern in life is?
7. Describe the incident with the French girl.
8. Why does the girl talk to him in German?
9. How have Wiesels feelings about his father changed?
10. Why does Wiesel teach his father to march?
11. Why does Idek insist that the prisoners work on Sunday?

12. How is Wiesel punished for what he has seen?

13. Describe the incident that takes place during the air raid.
14. What is Wiesels reaction to the hanging?
15. Who are the pipel? How do the prisoners feel about them?
16. How does the hanging of the child affect him?
Chapter Five
1. What is Rosh Hashanah?
2. What is Wiesels attitude toward God? Be specific.
3. What cant he bless God?
4. Why does Wiesel think man is greater than God?
5. Why does he feel like a stranger in the ceremony?
6. What is the Kaddish?
7. How does his father feel after the ceremony?
8. What is Yom Kippur?
9. Why doesnt he fast? (List two reasons.) What are his feelings about God?
10. What is the selection?
11. Why does the veterans say they are lucky to be in Buna now?
12. What advice does the head of their block give them?
13. What present does his father give him?
14. Why does he hate bells?
15. Why is Akiba chosen for the selection?
16. Why do they forget to say the Kaddish for Akiba?
17. Why is Wiesel sent to the hospital?

18. What advice is he given by the Hungarian Jew?

19. What happens to Wiesel in the operating room?
20. Why does the faceless one have faith in Hitler?
21. Why is the camp evacuated?
22. What decision does Wiesel make with his father?
23. What happens to the prisoners who are left in the camp?
24. Why are they ordered to wash the floor?
Chapter Six
1. What happens to Zalman?
2. Why doesnt Wiesel succomb to his desire for death?
3. Why does his father wake him up?
4. Why does his family smile?
5. Describe Rabbi Eliahou.
6. What does he remember about the Rabbis son?
7. What is Julieks main concern.
8. What are their first three days in Gleiwitz like?
9. What happens during the selection at Gleiwtiz?
Chapter Seven
1. How long is the train ride?
2. Why is he appalled about the coins that are thrown to the children?
3. How does hunger turn families against each other?
4. What camp do they arrive at?

Chapter Eight
1. Why is Wiesel angry with his father?
2. Why is he ashamed of himself the next morning?
3. What illness strikes his father?
4. Why doesnt he want to give his father water?
5. Why advice does the head of the block give him?
6. Why cant he weep after the death of his father?
Chapter Nine
1. What does Gustav tell the children to do?
2. Why are they going to blow up the camp?
3. Who takes over the camp?
4. What army arrives first after the SS flees?
5. Why will he never forget what he sees in the mirror?