Buna (pages 47- 58)

1.      What does Buna look like when they first arrive?  Explain fully.

2.      How is the leader of the camp described?

3.      Why exactly does the leader of the camp and other Nazi’s have an interest in the children that are brought in?

4.      What does one of the assistants ask of Eli for getting into a good unit?

5.      Who is Franek?

6.      Who is Juliek and what does he explain to Eli?

7.      What do they do at the warehouse?

8.      For what reason does the secretary of the block send for Eli?

9.      What is Eli’s #?

10.  How does Eli escape having his gold cap taken out?

11.  What eventually happens to the dentist?  Why?

12.  Why does Eli get into a fight with Idek? Who helps him afterward?

13.  What does Eli eventually find out about the French woman he works next to?  Explain fully.

14.  Why does Idek beat Eli’s father? Who is Eli mad at and why?

15.  What does Franec ask Eli for and how does he eventually get it? Explain fully.

16.  What does Eli discover in the warehouse one Sunday afternoon?

17.  What happens to Eli because of his discovery?

Paragraph- Overall, what do we learn about the leaders and administration of Buna and corruption.  Make a list of the many things that they are guilty, in addition to the general brutality of the camp, and write a paragraph about the character of these people.  Cite the text in MLA format.

Quiz- Birkenau and Auschwitz

Select the appropriate letter for the correct response to each question.

1. During the first selection at Birkenau, Eliezer and his father pretend that their ages are, respectively:

a. 15 and 50

b. 15 and 40

c. 18 and 40

d. 18 and 50

2.  Birkenau’s purpose was to serve as a:

a. work camp

b. reception center

c. a crematory

d. barracks

3.  What is not a reason for Eliezer’s hope:

a. hatred for Hitler

b. faith in God

c. his father

d. the end of the war

4.  Why are the Jews assigned #s?

a. for a “selection” purpose

b. to degrade them

c. to remind them

d. to count them in total

5.  Why do the narrator and his father lie about their ages?

a. they believe they will be let go

b. so they might be grouped together

c. to get the best unit

d. to avoid selection

6.  What consideration is foremost in the narrator’s mind

a.  absolute realism

b. staying with his father

c. survival

d.  finding his sister and mother

7.  After they are received at Auschwitz,  Eli and the rest of the inmates are made to

a. strip naked

b. be weighed

c. a and b

d. none of the above

8.  The SS Soldier is______ about their survival:

a. optimistic

b.pessimistic

c. altruistic

d. concerned

9.  The young Pole who is the head of the camp when they first arrive at Auschwitz is:

a. optimistic

b. pessimistic

c. humane

d.  a and c

  

10.  Eliezer’s assigned number is:

a. A-7713

b. A-7703

c. B-7713

d.  A-7773

11.  How long do they stay at Auschwitz?

a. 3 years

b. 3 days

c. 3 weeks

d. 1 week

12. What is the head of the camp replaced by?

a. “real monsters”

b. officers

c. doctors

d. Germans

13.  Work is liberty is

a.  The Auschwitz slogan

b.  Eliezer’s belief

c.  the first line of the Talmud

d.  friendly advice

14.  The inmates are not beaten on the way to Buna because of

a. a large roast

b. SS doctors

c. German girls

d. humanity

15.  Compare and contrast Akiba Drumer's belief about God in relation to Eliezer's thoughts about God.  Be thorough and considerate.   

Beginning Night

Night

From Home to Auschwitz

English 10

Define and Explain the significance  of each of these words the novel's theme so far

Billeted

Truncheons

Optimism

Mysticism

Edict

Abstraction

Answer the following questions

1.      Who is Moshe the Beadle and what does he discover in the beginning of the novel Night, by Eliezer Wiesel?

2.       Explain what the Jewish people are required to wear as identification.  Explain where they are forced to live and why- the deeper reason why.

Answer the following multiple choice questions?

1.      Eliezer and his family come from the town of

a.  Gliewitz

b.  Sighet

c.  Haifa

d.  Budapest

2.      Upon his return to the village, Moshe the Beadle tries to

a.       break into Eliezer’s home

b.      spy for the Nazis

c.       become a Rabbi

d.      warn the village of the Nazi threat

3.      On the train, Madame Schachter has visions of

a.       a gas chamber

b.      Israel

c.       A furnace

d.      Angels of liberation

4.      Unable to endure Madame Schachter’s screaming, several men on the train

a.       stuff their ears with cotton

b.      beat her senseless

c.       jump off the train

d.       persuade her son to keep her quiet