Night Chapter 1-9 Study Guide Questions And Answers.

He was poor and lived in "utter penury." He was awkward and shy. He had wide, dreamy eyes. He teaches Eliezer about Jewish mysticism.

He was 12, almost 13.

Moishe was like a mentor to Elie. Moishe was interested in religious teachings and had Elie ask questions about religion that Elie had not thought before.

They say, "What do you expect? That's war..." They were fed propaganda that the people who were removed were happy and treated well.

Moishe tells them about how babies are used for target practice and how they had to dig the graves they were to be buried in. No one believes him and tell him that he's crazy.

They think that they're polite.

• Unable to leave their residences for three days. • Unable to own gold, jewelry, or any valuables. • Forced to wear a yellow star of David • Unable to go to restaurants, travel by train, attend synagogue, being out after 6pm

It was similar to a town aside from the barbed wire that encircles them.

The smaller ghetto is expelled first and Elie compares the emptied houses to open tombs. Even as the remaining Jews move from the big ghetto into the smaller ghetto, they forget about the previous occupants. Within a few days, the rest of the Jews, including Elie's family, are deported. Packed eighty people to each cattle wagon, the last of the Jews depart Sighet.

She offered to hide them, but the Wiesel family refused to hide.

The cattle cars where jam packed, laying down was not an option, not even sitting. There was also very little air, the luckiest ones found themselves near a window. It was extremely hot in the train, and everyone was very thirsty.

They realized that they should have listened to the people who tried to warn them that they should have escaped. Now it was too late and they had to accept their fate, not an easy task to do.

Madame Schachter saw fire and flames in her vision.

At first, when Madame Schachter began screaming they said she was mad, and made an attempt to calm her down. When calming her down did not succeed, a few young men forced her to sit down and then bound and gagged her. After that once she escaped, she received several blows to the head. Finally, they just decided to give up on her.

This reveals that human nature is violence. When their very few attempts at getting her quiet without violence failed, they automatically resorted to using it. They also probably were realizing that they should have listened when other people told them they should have escaped previously.

Through the windows the Jews see chimneys attached to large furnaces. There's a smell of dying, human flesh that accompanies the horrifying sight of Birkenau.

Foreshadowing

They lie about their ages.

The older men beg the young men not to be foolish and tell them to rely on the words of the sage (wise men) that came before them.

Babies being thrown into the burning pits.

It hides his new shoes from being stolen.

He didn't react because of the fear of being abused himself and other punishments. He was being precautious.

Work makes you free.

Good Night.

A-7713- his tattooed number.

He says that God is testing them.

Buna.

He gives away his shoes in order to stay with his father.

He works with electrical materials and the work is not dangerous or difficult.

Elie went to the dentist to have his gold filling removed so when he got there, he pretended to be sick so that he wouldn't have to get it removed. The dentist then told him to come back when he was feeling better, and to not have to call him again (for him to come on his own). Elie went back later but he pretended again to get himself a few more days. The third time he went back, the dentist had been arrested and hung and Elie got to keep his filling.

He thinks that his father should work harder to avoid the wrath of their.

Franek takes his crown but he is transferred two weeks later so it was not worth it.

He sees Idek having intimate relations with an inmate.

He tries to sneak out to get soup.

A young and beautiful boy, which was rare to see in the camps. He was hung in front of the prisoners.

The pipel was just a child and it took him quite some time to die. During which everyone had to watch him suffer.

His decision was that he was going to rebel against God and his religion. He was not going to fast/ He made that decision because he though, "Why should I thank you when you haven't done anything to get us out of this mess." His father also forbade him to.

Sick and weak people who can be sent to their death.

Tibi and Yossi are two young brothers who become good friends with Eliezer at Buna.

If he could have kept his faith in God he could have considered the suffering a divine test.

They promise to say Kaddish in three days...they forget.

His foot begins to swell so bad it might have to be amputated.

The patients who stayed in the hospital were evacuated safely by Russian troops two days after the others left for another camp. "After the war, I learned the fate of those who had remained in the infirmary. They were, quite simply, liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation." They would have stayed instead of going.

His inheritance was a knife and a spoon from his father. His father gave those items to him because they where all he had left, besides his son (Elie)

The Jews were on a forced march and were shot down by the SS if they were to slow down or stop.

He gets stomach cramps and is trampled to death

There was a man and his son in this running march. The son abandoned his father when it looked as though his father, Rabbi Eliahou, would not make it. Elie watched that and desperately hopes that he wouldn't be like the Rabbi's son. He realizes that he and his father might be put into the same situation.

There was a stampede of people entering the camp, and both Elie and Juliek got trampled in the process. Neither of the boys could breathe very well, and Juliek was worried that his violin may break. When Juliek frees himself, he begins to play his violin for the dead, and those in the process of dying.

He keeps him awake and alert.

They were throwing the dead off the train and tried to do the same to his father. He convinced them he was still alive.

The father gets ahold of a piece of bread and his son begins to beat him for it and eventually kills him.

100 started....12 remained.

A worker throws a piece of bread into the train and it starts chaos and fights and murders.

A woman throws money to children and finds it amusing.

Someone tries to strangle him but he is saved by Meir Katz.

His father has been the one keeping him alive all this time and now Elie must take on the role of leader and protector.

For his ration and He could not relieve himself outside anymore and does it right in the bunks.

The head of the block says that Elie should be taking his father's rations of food. He does not follow the advice, but he thinks about it for a second, which makes him feel guilty.

Elie's father is taken away during the night, dead.

He was out of tears, and deep down he felt relieved.

Life no longer mattered.

Elie's camp is liberated.

They fall on the food and rations like animals.

Bread.

A corpse.

The horrors that he has witnessed will never be forgotten.