Night Review

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Night Review
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How do the Jews of Sighet generally feel about
the poor?

• They were looked down on, except Moshe.

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What does liberation mean?

• Freedom

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What was the St. Louis Incident?

• A ship that was denied entry into Cuba and the
  United States that was carrying 937 Jewish
  refugees

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What was the pesticide gas that was used in
concentration camp?

• Zyklon B

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What was the life expectancy in a concentration
camp?

• 4 months

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What was the master race?

• Aryan

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What does Elie want to study?

• The Kabala/mysticism

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What are some immoral actions that people would
usually not take, but under the extreme stress of
the situation they end up committing?

• Lies
• Stealing
• killing

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Why are the camp musicians not allowed to play
Beethoven?

• Jews are not allowed to play German music because
  they were not worthy in the eyes of the German SS.

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Who is Stein of Antwerp?

• Elies mothers relative

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Who is Franek?

• The foreman who wants Elies gold teeth.

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What is one of the things Elies father wants to
tell him before he dies?

• Where the gold and money is buried.

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Who is Idek?

• The moody Kapo who beat Elie for walking in on
  him.

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Who is Madam Schachter?

• The hysterical woman who screams about seeing
  fire from the evacuation cattle car.

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Who is Tzipora?

• Elies sister

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Who is Juliek?

• The violin player

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Mengele

• Notorious Nazi doctor

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After the war, Elie is hospitalized for

• Food poisoning

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Why was the camp dentist executed?

• Selling gold teeth for his own profit

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How does Moshe escape execution?

• He pretends to be dead when he is hit in the leg.

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How was Moshie different after he escaped and
came back to warn the other Jews?

• He was sadder he had lost his faith.

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Why was Moshie deported?

• All the foreign-born Jews were deported first.

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Why does Elie finally give up his gold tooth?

• Franek was harassing Elies father.

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How did the prisoners feel about the air raids
hitting the camps?

• They were happy even though it could mean death
  for them.

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How does Elie survive the New Years Day
selection?

• He runs quickly and tries to hide the number on
  his arm.

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What does the other prisoner tell Elie when he is
in the hospital?

• That selection was even more frequent in the
  hospital.

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Why is Buna evacuated?

• The Russian army is approaching.

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How does Elie feel at first when his father dies?

• Secretly relieved

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What is a memoir?

• A type of non-fiction, autobiographical work

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What happened to the prisoners who stayed behind
in the hospital in Buna?

• They were liberated by the Red Army.

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Who did Elie later run into in Paris?

• The French Girl he had worked with in Buna.

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Who is Rabbi Eliahou?

• The man whose son abandoned him during the
  evacuation march.

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What did the camp resistance hide?

• Guns and Grenades

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Before the evacuation Elie asks his father to do
what?

• Sell the business and move the family to
  Palestine.

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What is the Kaddish?

• A prayer for the dead

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What is the term for a deliberate and systematic
destruction of racial, political, or cultural
group?

• Genocide

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What were Kapos?

• Prisoners who cooperates with the SS in
  disciplining their fellow prisoners

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What is a section of a city occupied by a
minority group who live there because of outside
pressures.

• Ghetto

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A system of government in which a dictator rules
through terror and censorship.

• Fascism

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What was the size of Auschwitz?

• 5000 football fields

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What was the reason the inmates of concentration
camps were given so little food?

• To make them constantly think about food
  concerned only with self

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What are two items that can still be seen at
Auschwitz that were taken from the Jews?

• Shoes
• Glasses
• Suitcases
• hair

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What is the name of the Jewish House of Worship?

• Synagogue