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• The section of the city where a group is isolated.

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• What is a ghetto?

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• Banishment from an area.

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• What is deportation.

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• Clubs the German soldier used to beat people.

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• What is a truncheon?

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• This a Jewish sect. The main character wants to study this.

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• What is cabala?

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• This means to be annoying or a pest.

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• What is pestilential?

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• I am the main character. This is my memoir.

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• Who is Elie Wiesel?

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• How much do you wish to wager?

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• This is the impoverished man of Jewish mysticism. He teaches Elie about cabalism.

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• Who is Moshe the Beadle?

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• I was screaming about seeing fire while on the cattle car.

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• Who is Madame Schachter?

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• I am the youngest family member of the Wiesel family – Elie’s little sister

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• Who is Tzipora?

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• We are the Nazi security police.

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• Who are the Gestapo?

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• The Jews believe this when the German soldiers treat them with politeness.

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• What is that they will be okay?

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• These are some of the opportunities for escape that the Wiesels did not take.

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• What is the time the when the servant offered to hide them?

• What is the time the when Elie urged his father to move to Palestine?

• What is the time when shortly before the evacuation, someone knocks on the boarded-up windows as a warning.

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• There are two of these places in Sighet, where the Jews are forced to live.

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• What are the ghettos?

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• This is the warning Moshe came back with for the Jews of Sighet.

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• What is that they are not safe; the Nazis brutally killed the foreign Jews?

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• The Jews feel this as the novel opens.

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• What is safe and optimistic?

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• This is the reception center at Auschwitz.

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• What is Birkenau?

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• These are the first signs of brutality by the Nazis.

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• What are beatings, waiting in the heat with no water, and being piled into cattle cars?

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• This is why the passengers on the cattle car hit Madame Schachter.

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• What is fear and the fact that her screams are making the situation worse?

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• This is the “abominable odor” in the air.

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• What is the smell of burning bodies?

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• Madame Schachter’s screams about fires is an example of this literary device.

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• What is an example of foreshadowing from the beginning of Night?

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• This is a story of a person’s life or a significant memory from a person’s life.

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• What is memoir?

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• This is when events of a story give reader’s insight about future events.

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• What is foreshadowing?

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• This is the point of view the story is being told in.

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• What is first person point of view.

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• This is the the Nobel Peace Prize that Elie Wiesel won in 1986.

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• What is award did Elie Wiesel win for writing this memoir??

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• What does Elie Wiesel currently do now?

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• What is journalist, writer of novels, play, and essays, as well as professor?