Night Test Chapter 4-9

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

“pre-judging” based on someone else’s experience

Question 2

Gestapo

Answer 2

Nazi secret police

Question 3

Scapegoat

Answer 3

someone who takes the blame for others actions

Question 4

Genocide

Answer 4

The mass killing of a targeted group

Question 5

Stereotype

Answer 5

an oversimplified image or idea of a group of people

Question 6

S.S.

Answer 6

The Nazi guard

Question 7

Nazi

Answer 7

“National Socialist German Workers’ Party” a political party lead by Nazi

Question 8

Anti-Semitism

Answer 8

A hatred towards Jews

Question 9

Kapo

Answer 9

A block leader

Question 10

Holocaust

Answer 10

The systemic, brueatic mass anhiliation of 6 million Jews during the third Nazi regime from 1933-1945.

Question 11

Sonderkommando

Answer 11

A Jew forced to work against their fellow Jews

Question 12

Discrimation

Answer 12

treating people differently (insulting them to taking away their right)

Question 13

Elie Wiesel

Answer 13

Protagonist, writer, 15-year-old boy

Question 14

Mr. Wiesel

Answer 14

Elie Wiesel’s father (store owner)

Question 15

Juliek

Answer 15

A young man from Warsaw who played the violin

Question 16

Zalmen

Answer 16

A worker in the eletrical warehouse immersion in the Talmud helps him escape reality (trampled to death)

Question 17

Rabbi Eliahou

Answer 17

A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father

Question 18

Akiba Drumer

Answer 18

a singer with a deep, soulful voice who inspires the other inmates in the concentration camps with his traditional Hasidic songs

Question 19

Idek

Answer 19

one of the Kapos and in charge of the narrator of the book, Eliezer (likes kids, whips Elie because he catches him)

Question 20

tall, defiant teen

Answer 20

“My curse on Germany!” (is hanged, Elie’s age)

Question 21

Silence in suffering

Answer 21

The world remained silent during the Holocaust

Question 22

Role Reversal

Answer 22

The father and son role with Elie and his father are reversing as Elie begins to have to take responiblity.

Question 23

Loss of Idenitiy

Answer 23

Elie begins to lose his faith in God as he goes through this awful event

Question 24

Loss of humanity

Answer 24

The prisoner’s humanity are taken away as they’re heads are shaved, they’re names are replaced by numbers

Question 25

Literal Part of Irony

Answer 25

Excatly what it’s saying

Question 26

Why did the soup taste better after watching the first hanging?

Answer 26

The boy didn’t give up hope. The Nazi’s failed at destorying his spirit. They failed.

Question 27

Why did the soup taste like corpses after the hanging of the young pipel?

Answer 27

The young pipel was crying, he was their little cheerleader, he was like God because he is young and angelic looking, and he suffered as he died slowly.