Night: Chapter 1 People, Places, and Things

Question 1

Moishe the Beadle

Answer 1

First character introduced in “Night.” He represented a earnest commitment to Judaism.

Question 2

Sighet

Answer 2

birthplace of Elie Wiesel

Question 3

Transylvania

Answer 3

historical region bounded by the Transylvanian Alps and the Carpathian Mountains

Question 4

Talmud

Answer 4

Collections of rabbinic commentary on biblical texts that form, with the Torah, the foundation for the religious laws of Judaism

Question 5

Synagogue

Answer 5

Jewish house of worship and study

Question 6

Ghetto

Answer 6

The confinement of Jews in a set-apart area of a city

Question 7

Kabbalah

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Hilda, Bea, Elie, Tzipora

Answer 8

Characters in “Night”

Question 9

Zohar

Answer 9

Hebrew meaning light or splendor

Question 10

Rosh Hashanah

Answer 10

Jewish New Year,also referred to as “Head of the Year”

Question 11

Zionism

Answer 11

Political movement advocating the establishment of a Jewish state

Question 12

Fascist

Answer 12

system of government with centralized authority under a dictator

Question 13

Yellow Star

Answer 13

Star of David, symbol of Jewish beliefs

Question 14

Anti-semitism

Answer 14

Hostility of discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

Question 15

Gestapo

Answer 15

German acronym for the German Secret State Police