Night: Chapter 1 People, Places and Things

Question 1

Moishe the Beadle

Answer 1

Served as a prophet through spiritual guidance to Wiesel and by telling the citizens of Sighet of his experience with the Nazi’s

Question 2

Sighet

Answer 2

Birth place of Elie Wiesel

Question 3

Transylvania

Answer 3

A historical region where Sighet was located

Question 4

Talmud

Answer 4

Collections of rabbinic commentary on biblical text

Question 5

Synagogue

Answer 5

A Jewish house of worship and study

Question 6

Ghetto

Answer 6

The confinement that the Jews were kept in

Question 7

Kabbalah

Answer 7

Method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism

Question 8

Hilda, Bea, Elie, Tzipora

Answer 8

Jews in the holocaust

Question 9

Zohar

Answer 9

From the Hebrew meaning light or splendor. One of the major works of the Cabbala.

Question 10

Rosh Hashanah

Answer 10

The celebration of the new year

Question 11

Zionism

Answer 11

a Jewish movement that rose in the late 19th century in response to anti-Semitism and European nationalism

Question 12

Fascist

Answer 12

Italian Political party - Nazi Party

Question 13

Yellow Star

Answer 13

Used to identify Jews

Question 14

Anti Semitism

Answer 14

Prejudice against or hatred of Jews

Question 15

Gestapo

Answer 15

German Secret Police