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Night
By Elie Wiesel
Questions and Answers
Chapter 1
1) Question: Describe Moshe the Beadle.
Answer: Moshe the Beadle is a caretaker of a synagogue in Sighet. He was
Elie Wiesel’s teacher of Jewish mysticism. He was poor and livd in utter
penury. Physically, he was as awkward as a clown, yet his waiflike shyness
made people smile. He also had wide, dreamy eyes.
2) Question: Describe Eli Wiesel’s father. What was his occupation?
Answer: His father was a cultured man, he was rather unsentimental. He
rarely displayed his feelings, not even with his family. He was more involved
with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin.
3) Question: Why was Moshe the beadle important to Eli Wiesel?
Answer: He was important because he was like a role model to Eli. He was
always doing and studying interesting religious things.
4) Question: How did Wiesel say he felt about the Hungarian Police?
Answer: Wiesel said he felt hatred towards the Hungarian Police.
5) Question: Who was Martha? What happened when she visited the Wiesel
family in the ghetto?
Answer: Martha was a servant and when she visited the Wiesel family in the
ghetto. She offered to hide them but the Wiesel family refused to hide.
6) Question: What was the setting and the year for the first section of the
book? What was the world condition at the time?

Answer: The setting takes place in a small town in Transylvania called
Sighet where a lot of Jews lived. The year was 1941. During that year, the
Germans were taking over and the start of World War Two began.
7) What are some incidents that suggest or foreshadow the coming danger
to the Sighet Jews? Why doesn’t the community believe it is a danger?
Answer: The one incident that occurs in the first section of Night is when
the Hungarian takes all foreign Jews away including the narrator’s friend,
Moishe the Beadle. After a bit, the Jews of Sighet eventually forget about
the anti-Semitic expelling. Even after Moishe returns and tells the story of
what happened in the camps he was sent to, the town judges him as a
lunatic and ignores his tales. 1944 rolls around and Hungary has been taken
over by Germany. The Jews of Sighet think that the anti-Semitic acts won’t
reach their capital of Budapest but still, the Germans invade. Finally, they
believe the foreshadowing danger.
8) Question: What are the conditions on the Jews’ train journey? How do the
Jews react to Madame Schachter’s behavior? What does this reveal about
human nature?
Answer: The cattle cars where jam packed, laying down was not an option,
not even sitting. There was also very little air, the luckiest ones found
themselves near a window. It was extremely hot in the train, and everyone
was very thirsty. At first, when Madame Schachter began screaming they
said she was mad, and made an attempt to calm her down. When calming
her down did not succeed, a few young men forced her to sit down and then
bound and gagged her. After that once she escaped, she received several
blows to the head. Finally, they just decided to give up on her. This reveals
that human nature is violence. When their very few attempts at getting her