What are good questions to ask about the book night?

Night Questions

• Why don’t the Jews in Sighet listen to the warnings of the danger to come?
• Why does suffering so often lead to a loss of faith?
• Is it worse to die or to be separated from your family?
• Because our memories are not always reliable, can we consider this book to be “true” and “factual”?

What questions did Mengele ask Elie?

What did he do? What was his purpose? Mengele asked their age, health and profession, to sort out the young weak and useless. What did another prisoner say would happen to Elie’s group?

What did Elie want to study when he was 12 years old?

He wants to study the Kabbalah.

What was the significance of Madame Schachter’s insane warnings?

Madame Schachter’s warnings seem to be prophetic warnings that were once again left unheeded by the Jews of Sighet. Eliezer and his family walked off of the train and, while taking in this site of mass destruction, were stared at by the SS and were told to split up between men and women.

What are the study questions for night by Elie Wiesel?

The 36 questions from the “Contemporary Classics Study Questions” for Night by Elie Wiesel. Describe Moshe the Beadle. Explain his relationship with the Jews of Sighet, particularly Eliezer. Moshe the Beadle is a poor, foreign Jew who lives in Sighet.

Which is the first book in the night study guide?

Night Study Guide. Little known to many is that Night is actually the first of a trilogy, followed by Dawn and Day, which is said to convey both a Jewish folkloric practice of beginning day at nightfall, and also conveys Wiesel’s own transition in life post holocaust. The book has since been translated into 30 different languages,…

What happens in Chapter 3 of night study?

-Chapter 3- Describe the first selection. When they arrive, the men are sent to the left (life), and the women are sent to the right (not life- to put in kindly). Some Jews are already being shot and killed as they arrive. The male prisoners are then questioned to find out who will work and who will be immeadiately sent to the crematoria.

How old was Elie Wiesel when he wrote and the world remained silent?

After being liberated at the age of 16 from Buchenwald by the United States Army, Wiesel moved to Paris. He completed an 862-page manuscript in Yiddish by the end of 1954 about all of his experiences during the holocaust. He then revised it to a 245 page edition entitled “And the World Remained Silent” which was published in Argentina.