Night Reading Questions

As you read the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel answer the following questions. The questions will be due once we complete the reading during week 8 of the course.
1. How are all witnesses to history and messengers to humanity? (4 Point Question)
2. Who is a part of Eliezer’s family? What do his parents do for a living? (2 Point Question)
3. What role does Moshe the Beadle play in Eliezer’s life? (1 Point Question)
4. Moshe and other foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet because they were foreigners. How do other Jews in the community respond to the deportation of foreign Jews? (2 Point Question)
5. How is Madame Schächter like Moshe the Beadle? How are they both treated by others when they try to warn fellow Jews (4 Point Question)
6. Consider the way the Germans systematically strip Eliezer and other
prisoners of their identity. How does Eliezer respond to the removal of his clothes and other belongings? To the shaving of his hair? The number tattooed on his arm? How do you account for these responses? (4 Point Question)
7. In your OWN words explain what the word Night has the word come to symbolize as you have read about Eliezer’s experience. (4 Point Question)
8. How do words like soup and bread take on new meaning for Eliezer? Why does he describe himself as a “starved stomach”? What did it mean to see bread and soup as one’s “whole life”? (page 52) (2 Point Question)
9. What does the dentist want from Eliezer? (1 Point Question)
10. What is your greatest take away from reading this memoir? (1point Question)