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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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Review Game Nightby Elie Wiesel
2. How old was Eliezer when he was deported from his village?
Answer: 1933
8. At the Wannsee Conference, Nazi officials turn over what plan to the government?
9. While being deported in the cattle cars, what did Madame Schachter envision?
Answer: She cried out, “Fire!” She imagined the furnaces that the Jews were to see when they reached their first camp.
10. Identify the concentration camps in order from the camp that “introduced” him to the horror to the camp that liberated him.
11. What number did Eliezer become so “after that [he] had no other name?”
14. What risk did the French girl take when she was helping Eliezer, and why was it a risk?
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.
16. What aspect of his life does Eliezer begin to question throughout his experience at the concentration camps?
17. Eliezer said: “That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” How does this quote relate to the execution that he witnessed?
Answer: He lost his faith as he witnessed the young boy, “sad-eyed angel” struggle between life & death as he was being hanged.
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.
Answer: situational irony.Neither the audience nor the reader knows that those who are left behind will be freed.
20. Eliezer felt himself as “two entities” during the death march; what were those two entities?
21. Why did Eliezer feel ashamed when his father had been taken to the crematory?
Answer: His father’s last words were Eliezer’s name, and Eliezer did not respond.
22. What is the last image that Wiesel uses to end the novel?
Answer: Eliezer looking into his reflection in the mirror—seeing a corpse staring back at him.
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.
Answer: The men know that the families will be split up at Birkenau. They use verbal irony (deception) to give the Jews false hope.
24. What are two reasons that Schindler’s List was filmed in black & white?
25. When Commandant Goeth says, “Today is history,” what does HE mean?
Answer: The Nazis would eliminate the Jews, and the Jews’ role in European history would become a “rumor.”
26. How was Schindler able to “rescue” so many Jews from the Plascow labor camp?
Answer: He bribed the camp officials so that these Jews could come work in his factory.
28. A(n) ______ is a section of a city that is occupied by a minority group because of social, economic, or legal pressure.
