1. Night by elie wiesel

2. Study guide questions
Keep a running log of your study guide questions for each chapter.
I will collect these responses at random.
The questions on the chapter quizzes will reflect the study guide questions.
You do not have to write out the question but please restate it for a complete sentence.

3. Chapters 1 & 2 guiding questions
Given the title of this book is Night, what do you suppose a major theme in this work will be?
What does elie desire to study and who does he get to help him?
What happens to moishe the beadle and what does he say he witnessed? Why don’t any of the townspeople believe moishe’s story?
What kind of position does elie’s father have in the community?
What kind of relationship do elie and his father have at the beginning of the novel?
Where are the jews sent first after the arrival of the german soldiers? Where are they sent next?
How many people ride on each train car?
After several days of travel, what did the prisoners finally realize?
9. What does Madame Schachter imagine she sees? Name the literary device Madame Schachter’ s “vision” is an example of.
When the prisoners were finally unloaded from the train, where were they? What was significant about the time?

4. Chapters 3 & 4 guiding questions
1. The men were marched before Dr. Josef Mengele. What did he do? What was his purpose?
2. when elie realized that he and his father may be burned, what plan did he devise?
3. the scene of Wiesel and his father approaching the inferno is particularly vivid. How did the author achieve this?
4. one way an author might effectively emphasize a point is through selective repetition of a word or phrase. What phrase does Wiesel employ to highlight the horror of his first night in the concentration camp?
5. how did some religious jews see their troubles? At this point, how does Elie feel about god?
6. In Ch. 4 Elie and his father are now in the forced labor camp called buna. All of the kapos were also prisoners, and most were Jewish. Are you surprised about how cruel and greedy they were? Why do you think people would respond this way?
7. Why were the prisoners happy about the air raid even though they might have been killed by the bombs?
8. One day, the prisoners were told that soup would not be distributed until after roll call. Why was this?
9. What other public execution does Wiesel write about and why was this execution particularly cruel?