Night Review
Vocabulary Review Withered, dried up, shriveled
Answer: Wizened
To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission
Answer: Prostrate
The state of the spirits of a person or group
Answer: Morale
To force or drive out; to force to leave
Answer: Expelled
Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship
Answer: Refuge
Difficult to bear burdensome, weighing heavily on the sense or spirit
Answer: Oppressive
Of or relating to hell, fiendish, diabolical
Answer: Infernal
An inflammatory disease of the lower intestinal tract, caused by a bacterial parasitic infection
Answer: dysentery
Of or relating to, or occurring in the night
Answer: nocturnal
Having religious reverence; devout
Answer: pious
An intervening episode, feature, or period of time
Answer: interlude
Full of health and strength, powerfully built
Answer: robust
Discolored, as from a bruise, extremely angry, furious
Answer: livid
Being or seeming to be without and end, tiresomely long
Answer: interminable
A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust. To make a sharpt contortion of the face
Answer: grimace
A fixed portion of food. To restrict or limit allotments
Answer: ration
A period of time of enforced isolation or restriction of free movement
Answer: quarantine
To postpone or cancel the punishment of, to bring relief to
Answer: reprieve
Lack of concern or interest, lack of emotion or feeling
Answer: Apathy
Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion
Answer: humane
Character Identification “She was about fifty… Her husband and two eldest sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake. The separation had completely broken her.”
Answer: Madame Schachter
“… a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle; a conductor’s baton in his hand… The Baton moved unremittingly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.”
Answer: Dr. Mengele
“I don’t attach any importance to my life anymore. I’m alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you.”
Answer: Moshe the Beadle
Whips Elie for seeing him with a naked girl
Answer: Idek
He was almost thrown off the train because the prisoners thought he was frozen to death.
Answer: Elie’s Father (Chlomo)
Does not realize that his son has abandoned him during the forced run
Answer: Rabbi Eliahou
At the beginning of the book, when Eliezer prays, he a. smiles. b. concentrates c. weeps d. grimaces
Answer: c. weeps
The Jews in the Sighet ghettos a. refuse to cooperate with the Nazis at all. b. set up a basic city government. c. treat each other badly. d. have more freedom than before.
Answer: b. set up a basic city government.
The musicians on the work crew are not permitted to play Beethoven because –A. the Nazis hate Beethoven –B. the music might distract the prisoners. –C. Beethoven was a Jew. –D. Jews are not allowed to play German music.
Answer: D. Jews are not allowed to play German music.