Night

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Night

• Chapters Three and Four

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Life in Birkenau
1. Why did the guards send the men in one
direction and the women in another?
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Life in Birkenau
2. Why did Elie lie about his age?
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Life in Birkenau
3. What was the selection process?
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Life in Birkenau
4. What actions aimed to degrade and humiliate
the prisoners?
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Life in Birkenau
5. Who was Stein? Why did Elie lie to him?
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Life in Birkenau
6. What changes in Elie are evident in this
chapter?
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Struggling for Survival
1. How did Buna compare and contrast with
Auschwitz II?
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Struggling for Survival
2. What was Elies main condition regarding his
work unit? What does that say about him?
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Struggling for Survival
3. Why was an orchestra present?
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Struggling for Survival
4. Explain the information about Elies teeth.
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Struggling for Survival
5. What are the effects of the passages about the
French woman?
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Struggling for Survival
6. In what sense did life in the camp begin to
dehumanize Elie?
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Struggling for Survival
7. How and why did an outburst of laughter get
Elie in trouble?
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Struggling for Survival
8. How do the hangings near the end of the
chapter affect the readers? How did they affect
Elie?
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The God Question
1. Why was it natural for the man behind Elie to
ask where God was?
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The God Question
2. How might someone who was not Jewish, perhaps
not religious in any way, pose the same question?
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The God Question
3. How did Elies experiences in the camps belie
all of his early assumptions about his faith?
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The God Question
4. Look at the cover of the April 8, 1966 cover
of Time magazine. Why did the editors decide to
use that cover for the issue?
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The God Question
5. What are the ideas of the philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche? What did he say about God?
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The God Question
6. If you were a friend of 15-year-old Elie as he
struggled with these complex ideas, what would
you tell him?