Complete study guide questions for chapter 1
Complete vocab sheet for chapter 1
14 point quiz on chapter one content on Tuesday
10 point quiz on chapter one vocab words on Tuesday
Night Discussion Questions—Preface
1. Why did Elie write the book? Link these reasons to why people should study the Holocaust in the first place.
2. Why does Elie say that “language became an obstacle” (ix) in the writing of this book?
3. “To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (xv). Explain this quote. Do you agree with him? Connect this idea with other tragedies (soldiers killed in war, 9/11, etc.).
4. Journal Entry: What is one thing that surprised you about what Elie says in the Preface? Is there anything that you felt an emotional reaction to? Explore in your journal.
Night Discussion Questions—Chapter 1
1. Why does Moishe come back to tell his story? Why do you think that the townspeople choose to ignore his warning?
2. Explain the irony in the following statements:
a) “Well? What did we tell you? You wouldn’t believe us. There they are, your Germans. What do you say now? Where is their famous cruelty?” (10).
b) “The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…” (11).
3. Explain the meaning of the following statement: “The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion” (12).
4. How does Weisel’s narrative style and voice contribute to the effectiveness of his message? Consider the short, clipped sentences, detached voice, first person narrator, etc.)
5. What is the symbolic meaning of “night”? Notice its use in the first chapter (and the chapters that follow).
Night: Vocabulary
Directions: Create an original sentence for each of the 43 vocabulary words from Night. Make sure to underline the word in the sentence.
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Word Clue
1. ANECDOTES short, humorous stories
2. APATHY lack of emotion or feeling
3. BEREAVED left alone by death
4. BLANDISHMENTS coaxing by flattery
5. CONSTRAINT restrictions
6. CONTAGION a harmful influence
7. CONVALESCENT returning to health after an illness
8. CONVOY a group of vehicles traveling together
9. DEPORTEES those being expelled from a country
10. DEPRIVE to take something away from
11. DEVOID completely lacking or empty
12. DREGS the least desirable portions
13. ELAPSED passed
14. EMACIATED made thin due to starvation
15. EMIGRATION leaving one area to settle in another
16. ENCUMBERED hindered; restricted
17. EVACUATION withdrawing troops or civilians
18. FEEBLE lacking strength, weak
19. FRENZY violent mental agitation or wild excitement
20. HERMETICALLY sealed against the entry or escape of air
21. INSIGNIFICANT trivial; not important
22. LAMENTATION grief; mourning
23. LATTER second of two
24. LIVID ashen; pallid
25. LUCIDITY clear understanding
26. MELANCHOLY sadness; depression
27. MONOCLE an eyeglass for one eye
28. NOTORIOUS known unfavorably
29. PESTILENTIAL likely to cause an epidemic disease
30. PLAINTIVE expressing sorrow
31. PROFOUNDLY absolutely; in an unqualified way
Vocabulary: Section 1, pages 3-23
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any
clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the
underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1. They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.
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2. Nobody ever felt embarrassed by him. Nobody ever felt encumbered by his presence.
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3. He was a past master in the art of making himself insignificant, of seeming invisible.
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4. I was twelve. I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue
to weep over the destruction of the Temple
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5. The train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on Polish territory had been taken in charge
by the Gestapo.
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6. At that time, it was still possible to obtain emigration permits for Palestine
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7. With some of my schoolmates, I sat in the Ezra Malik gardens, studying a treatise on the Talmud.
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8. My father was telling them anecdotes and expounding his own views on the situation.
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9. At dawn, there was nothing left of this melancholy.
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