Night - Level Questions/Connections

Elie questioning God reminds a student of Lieutenant Dan questioning God in Forrest Gump.

Question that requires the reader to make a value judgement (right/wrong, good/bad).

Was it right that Elie's father chose not to leave when the ghettos were being liquidated?

How did Elie survive the Holocaust?

Question that requires the reader to put facts and hits together from the text.

Why did Elie not give his father water when he asked for it?

A student says Elie's mother and Tzipora being separated from he and his father reminds him of the book The Lucky Child.

Question that can be answered by directly pointing to information in the text.

What inheritance did Elie's father give him?

Where was Elie transferred after his father passed away?

Connection that relates the text to an example in another book, film, tv show, or song.

Connection that relates the text to something that has happened to someone personally.

A student says Night reminds them of the genocide still present in the world today.

The section over Dr. Mengele reminds a student of when they went to the National Museum in DC and learned about him.

Is it bad that Elie was losing his faith in God?

Elie's father reminds a student of her grandfather because people would always go to him for guidance.

Elie questioning his belief in God is similar to people who go through a tough time in life and start questioning God.

Connection that relates the text to history or a current event in the news (usually non-fiction).