Night Name___________________________________________________________________ Date____________________ Per_____________ Reading Questions: Ch. 1 & 2 (Pages 3—28) Directions —Respond to each question in complete sentences and paragraph form. 1. How important is religion to the way Elie Wiesel defines his identity? 2. Describe Wiesel’s community at the beginning of the story. How does young Elie view the world and his place in it? 3. What are some of the incidents that suggest or foreshadow the coming danger to the Sighet Jews? Why doesn’t the community believe it is in danger? 4. What are the conditions on the Jews’ train journey? How do the Jews react to Madame Schacter’s behavior? What does this reveal about human nature? Night
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Reading Questions: Ch. 3 (Pages 29—46)
Directions​—Respond to each question in complete sentences and paragraph form.
1. Wiesel, in recounting the first night in the concentration camp says, “Never shall I forget that night,
the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night....” What does it mean for a
life to be turned into “one long night”?
2. Why do you think the Germans take away the inmate's personal belongings? Their clothing? Why
do they cut off their hair? Tattoo a number on each person’s arm?
3. How does Eliezer respond when his father is beaten for the first time? How does that response
affect the way he sees himself? What does he fear is happening to him?
Night
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Reading Questions: Ch. 4 (Pages 47—65)
Directions​—Respond to each question in complete sentences and paragraph form.
1. Give examples of the ways Eliezer’s relationship with his father is changing. What is prompting
those changes?
2. What does Eliezer mean when he refers to his father as “his weak point”? Why has he come to
view love as a weakness?
3. When the young boy is hanged, a prisoner asks, “Where is God now?” Eliezer thinks to himself, “He
is hanging here on this gallows....” What does this statement mean? Is it a statement of despair?
Anger? Or hope?
4. Discuss the​ meaning of the word ​resistance at Auschwitz.
Night
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Reading Questions: Ch. 5 & 6 (Pages 66—97)
Directions​—Respond to each question in complete sentences and paragraph form.
1. Throughout the story Wiesel describes various ways that the prisoners resisted. Describe some of
these resistance methods and explain why you think there was no large-scale effort to resist.
2. In what ways to the prisoners find ways to maintain their dignity despite the inhumanity of their
situation?
3. Describe the relationship that Elie had with his body during the 42 mile march.
Night
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Reading Questions: Ch. 7, 8, & 9 (Pages 98—115)
Directions​—Respond to each question in complete sentences and paragraph form.
1. After grudgingly giving his father soup, Elie tells himself that he has withstood the test no better
than Rabbi Eliahou’s son. What test is he referring to?
2. Given their life or death situation, do you believe Wiesel’s attitude toward his father was
understandable? Explain your reactions.
3. Select one passage in Night and comment on how it portrays human nature in a positive or
negative light.