Night- pages 3-22
Vocabulary and Change Introduction
English 10
Mr. Buyce
Complete the definitions; answer questions and then write a paragraph on the transformation
of our narrator’s life from your knowledge of the reading from homework.
A. Vocabulary
Timidity Indulgently
Waiflike Initiation
Mysticism Emigration
Sentimental Fascist
Abstraction Truncheons
Anecdotes Billeted
Optimism Decree
Expounding Edict
Phylacteries
B. Questions
1. Explain the character of
Moshe the Beadle, physically and his effect on other people.
2. How old should one be to
study “mysticism?”
3. What are the names of the
narrator’s siblings?
4. Who ends up being the
narrator’s master?
5. Where is it that Moshe the
Beadle tells Eliezer the true answers are?
6. What is the narrator doing,
generally, in the beginning of the novel?
Before all of the foreign Jews were expelled?
7. Why are the foreign Jews
expelled?
8. What story does Moshe the
Beadle tell to Eliezer about his escape?
9. How does Moshe change from
his experience?
10. For what reasons does the
narrator think that he and his people are safe?
11. How are the German soldiers
perceived, when they first arrive?
12. What happens on the seventh
day of Passover?
13. What are the Jewish people
required to wear after Passover?
14. Where are they forced to
live?
15. What information does Stern,
the police officer, tell Eliezer’s family?
16. Who do they miss, who was knocking on the
window? Why is this crucial?
17. Explain the overall scene at
the closing of the reading.
C. Paragraph- write a paragraph on the drastic
change in our narrator’s life.
