"Night" Quiz: Gabrielle G and Sterling

Why does Elie have internal conflict after not standing up for Shlomo, who was beaten by the "Gypsy inmate" (39)?

Based on his direct characterization, what is Elie's "father" like in chapter 1 (4)?

What does the death of "Meir" and his father reveal about how the camps changed them (101)?

Why is it the camp policy to tattoo "numbers" on the prisoners instead of using names (42)?

What does Elie's father's blank stare and "silence" indirectly characterize about him (104)?

How does Wiesel use figurative language to describe what happened to him on his "first night" at Auschwitz (34)?

What was the purpose of the “yellow star” (11)?

What causes the speaker, Elie, to face the external conflict of the “German[s]” and not give up (54)?

What exigence sparked Elie to write the ending in a bleak way with "no thought of revenge or of parents" (115)?

Who foreshadowed the “fire” at the Jew’s destination (25)?

How does the atmosphere of the concentration camp contrast the music from Juliek’s “violin” (95)?

Who was the audience when Elie’s dad first mentioned that the Jews would be “transport[ed]” from the ghetto (13)?

What is the tone when Elie and all the prisoners "were running. Like automatons” (85)?

What type of figurative language is used in the quote, “a corpse was contemplating me” (115)?

Why did the German worker throw “a piece of bread” to the prisoners (100)?

Why does Shlomo give Elie his "knife and spoon" (76)?

Choices; What is ironic about the incident with Elie’s “shoes” in Buna (48)?

What is the first instance of the context of  “the smell of burning flesh” in Night (28)?

What form of appeals is shown when Elie's father begs, "Have pity on your old father" (105)?

Why did Elie use biblical allusions from the Jews to Noah and the "Flood," Sodom its "damnation," and Adam and Eve (68)?