ELA Night Final Flashcards
what years does night take place in?
between the years of 1942-1945
what type of book is night?
a memoir
where does the first section of night take place in?
in sighet, transylvania
what does elie want to study? why can’t he study this?
he wants to study cabbala but his father is opposed
what did moshe the beadle tell people?
that on his return from being deported that the foreign Jews were shot and dumped into large mass graves
what did moshe the beadle warn the sighet jews about?
that Nai aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives, but Elie and the other villagers conclude that he had lost his mind
what does the german decree require jews to wear?
a yellow cloth star, to symbolize the Star of David to identify themselves
what did madame chatcher see in her vision?
a fire with huge flames
what was the first camp that elie and his family were taken to?
birkenau
what age does elie tell dr. mengele that he is when he arrives?
18
what is the main food staple while elie is at the camp?
bread and soup
what is inscribed on the doors of auschwitz
“work is liberty”
what book was an allegory of the holocaust?
the children’s book the terrible things
what was the tattoo that was tattooed on elie’s left arm
A-7713
who says the first humane word that elie has heard in a long time, and what is the word?
a smiling, compassionate young Polish prisoner-overseer, shalom
what must the prisoners go through every time they enter a new camp?
selection
what happens when idek falls into a murderous fit one day in the warehouse and lashes elie?
a French Jewish woman passing as Aryan soothes him
how do the SS guards execute prisoners who have committed crimes
by hanging them
what was elie’s pitiful inheritance
a knife and a spoon
why does elie choose not to fast on yom kippur?
as a rebellion against god
what would elie dream a better world would be
one without bells
what is elie describing in the quote “Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor nothing.”?
death
what does juliek do in a drak shed among the struggling horde?
he produces his violin, which previously had been smashed and broken the night before he died
what did the men do on the evening of rosh hoshana?
they held a prayer service and wished each other a happy new year
what did elie realize about rabbi eliahou’s son?
he had been trying to loose his father as the men were all running just before the evacuation
how many men started out on the train? how many men were left when they arrived at buchenwald?
about 100 men, 12 men
what was the first thing elie did when he was freed from the camp
eat
what was the last thing elie’s father said?
eliezer, which is hebrew for god will help
what does elie find at the end of the night?
he finds himself unrecognizable
who was america’s president during WWII and the holocaust?
FDR
what was november 9th 1938 known as?
Kristallnacht or the Night of the Broken Glass
