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From what point of view is Night told?
Third person
First person
Third person, omniscient
Second person
Who is Moishe the Beadle to Eliezer?
He scolds Eliezer for talking in the synagogue.
He helps sneak Eliezer food.
He is a religious teacher to Eliezer.
He watches over Eliezer during the day to make sure he doesn't get in trouble.
How does Eliezer view the world as a child before the war?
corrupt and immoral
beautiful and a reflection of a loving God
neutral and disinteresting
strictly self-centered and harsh
How did Moishe the Beadle escape the executions?
The German soldiers thought he was crazy and let him go.
He was shot in the leg and left for dead then escaped when alone.
He fought off several German soldiers and ran away.
He didn't. He was killed with the others.
All of the following are reasons people didn't believe Moishe's story when he returned to town, EXCEPT
No one believed something like this could happen.
People thought he was trying to get pity or money.
He had alcohol on his breath so they thought he was drunk.
People thought he had gone mad and was crazy.
The community's first impression of the German officers is
Scared--they were mean and cruel.
Pleasant--the officers were polite and calm.
Unsure--the Germans didn't speak to anyone and remained in their houses.
They were fun--they taught at the schools and played with the kids in the streets some times.
What were the Jews forced to turn over to the Hungarian Police under orders from the German Army?
All their gold, jewels, or any object of value.
All of their clothes.
All of their books.
Any food or drinks they had in their homes.
Where were the Jews forced to move to inside their city?
Into two ghettos
Into concentration camps
Into workshops.
Into the synagogue.
What does Madame Schachter have a vision of on the train to Auschwitz?
The devil
God
The Angel of Death
Burning pits of fire
What lie do Elie and his father tell the SS officers when they arrive?
They lie about their ages.
They lie about being Jewish.
They lie about being father and son.
They lie about having money on them.
Elie's greatest fear in the camp was
being killed in his bunk by an inmate after his gold crown.
being sent to the crematorium while still alive.
being separated from his father.
that he might not ever see his mother and little sister again.
Jewish prisoners put in charge of other prisoners were
Kapos
Sonder-Kommando
SS
Kommando
Interestingly, Eliezer and his father are put into whose kommando?
the construction kommamdo
the crematorium kommando
the orchestra's kommando
the kitchen kommando
When Elie is forced to go to the dentist, how is he able to save his gold crown?
He tells the dentist he is sick.
He makes a deal with the dentist.
He escapes when the dentist isn't looking.
An air raid occurs and distracts everyone.
How does Franek exploit Eliezer's weak spot in his father in order to get the gold crown from Eliezer?
He withholds food from Eliezer's father.
He beats Eliezer's father for not marching in step with the others.
He tells on Eliezer's father for every little mistake any time he can.
He threatens selection.
Eliezer tells us that he feels like he has been reduced to a
stomach.
dead heart.
skeleton.
empty shell.
What is Eliezer's punishment for "spying" on Idek with the young Polish girl?
Eliezer does not get his ration for the day.
Idek beats up his father.
Eliezer is beaten with a metal rod.
Eliezer is whipped.
Incredibly, who does Eliezer run into later in life on the Paris Metro?
Yossi and Tibi
Idek
the French girl
Akiba Drumer
Which execution really affected the desensitized prisoners?
the Dutch Oberkapo
the young boy from Warsaw who stole during the air raid
The Rabbi Eliahou
the pipel
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