A. Explain completely the process of
“selection” as it happens to Eli, his father and the rest of the prisoners. What are the specific steps? Refer to specific details from the novel.
B. Questions
1.
What reason does the narrator of Night give
for Akiba Drumer being “selected” against?
Why does he become unable to work?
2.
What does he, Akiba Drumer, ask of his friends?
3.
For what reason does Eliezer have to go see a
doctor? What happens to him as a
consequence of this?
4.
What does the Hungarian Jew explain to him?
5.
What is it like in the hospital?
6.
How long does Eliezer have to stay in the hospital?
7.
What ‘rumor’ starts to circulate “two days after”
Eliezer’s operation?
8.
What fact does Hitler make “very clear”?
9.
Where will the inhabitants of the camp be moved
to? What will happen to the ‘invalids’?
10.
What major decision are Eli and his father faced
with?
11.
What decision do they make and why?
12.
Give two reasons why Eli cannot sleep?
13.
How are people dressed for the evacuation? What special item does Eli try to find for
himself and his condition?
14.
What are the four prisoners ordered to do before
they leave the camp? Why?
C. Define the following words.
automatons entity
parched famished
petrified bewildered
stupefied bereaved
privations semblance
apathy vigilance
embarkation
- Answer the following questions
1.
As the prisoners of the camp set out from Buna,
they are not allowed to stop or slow down.
What is the consequence of a prisoner stopping? What will happen to them?
2.
What does the narrator explain as the only thing
that kept him from stopping or slowing down?
3.
Where do they stop at first?
4.
Why is Eliezer warned not to fall asleep? What do Eliezer and his father do instead/
where do they end up?
5.
What or who is Rabbi Eliahou looking for? What has happened? What does Eli realize?
6.
What destination do they finally reach?
7.
Who does Eli find as they enter the new camp? What is he worried about and what eventually
happens to him?
8.
What new threat do Eli and his father face in the
new camp?
9.
How long do they stay at the new camp and what are
they made to do?
10.
“On the third day, at dawn”, what happens? What is the possible reason for this
occurrence?
11.
Explain fully how Eli escapes being separated from
his father?
12.
What do the prisoners do to quench their thirst?
E. Write a short paragraph on the difference
between Eli’s devotion to his father and Rabbi Eliahou’s son’s devotion. Briefly comment on how this explains the stress
put upon a son’s responsibility to his father.
Overall, answer the question of why Eliahou’s son would do such a
thing? Why are Eliahou’s son’s actions
rational but still unacceptable?
