Omair_Hanna_-_Night_Study_Questions - Night: Defining...

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Explore the factors that shape Eliezer’s identity.
1. How does Eliezer describe himself? What seems to be important to him?
2. What role does Moshe the Beadle play in Eliezer’s life?
3. How important is religion to the way Eliezer defines his identity?
4. How does Eliezer view Moshe at the beginning of the book? How do others in Sighet regard him?
5. Why were Moshe and other foreign Jews expelled from Sighet? How do other Jews in the community
respond to the deportation of foreign Jews?
6. What did Moshe witness when he was shipped to Poland? Why does he want the Jews of Sighet to know
what he saw? Why is it so important to Moshe that he be believed?
7. Why do you think Elie Wiesel begins Night with the story of Moshe the Beadle?
8. How does Wiesel’s first person point of view help the reader better understand how the Jewish people felt
when forced to move into ghettos and then to wait for deportation?