9^th Grade English Name:___________________

Night, by Elie Wiesel

Plot Review—pages 1-80

Night is the story of a young boy named ______________, growing up in the small village of ______________ in Transylvania, in Romania. The books opens at the end of the year ___________, when the narrator is __________ years old. The first episodes center around a man named ________________________, who was deported as a foreigner and saw first-hand the horrors of the Nazis. He tried to warn the local Jews when he returned, but they refused to listen. Time goes by, and the Jews of the little village tell themselves, “The Germans won’t _____________________________________. They’ll ___________________________

_________________. There are _____________________________________________________________.” And yet, the Germans come, even to their little village, with their emblem of the _______________________. Things still seemed okay…until the seventh day of Passover, when the Germans ________________________

_____________________________. Among the new rules passed against the Jews is that they must wear _____________________________. The narrator’s father says, “Oh, well, what of it? ___________________

___________________.” Finally, the Germans set up two _________________ in the village. Shortly after that, all the Jews are deported.

“One by one they passed in front of me, ___________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________. They went by, fallen, dragging their packs, dragging their _____________, deserting their homes, the ________

_____________________, cringing like __________________________.” At one point, the family servant, Martha, begs the family to ________________________________________________________________, but _______________________________________________________________________. Finally, they are expelled, among the last Jewish villagers to be deported to the camps.

The train ride is horrible, with ________ people in one train car, trapped for days. A woman on the train, Madame Shächter, claims to see ____________ out the window of the train. When they finally arrive at their destination, she screams, “Jews, look! Look through the window! _____________! Look!” They look, and see “this time that _____________________________________________________________________.” They are at ___________________, the reception center for the death camp called ______________________.

The “eight short, simple words” that rip young Elie’s life in half are spoken by an SS officer: “________

____________________! _______________________________!” Elie’s true age is that he is not yet ______, but he is told to say that he is ________ in order to pass the first selection. When the notorious Dr. __________

asks him, he lies about his age as well as his profession, which he says is ____________________. When young Elie tells his father that humanity would never tolerate the burning of people in the modern age, his father responds: “_________________? _________________________________________.” For the first time, the formerly religious Elie cannot pray. “Why should I bless His name? __________________________

_____________________________________________. What had I to thank Him for?” The prisoners report to the barracks, and then are told to ______________. Then they are ordered to go to the _________________. Over the next hours and days, they are constantly changing barracks. At one point, Elie’s father politely asks the gypsy in charge of them where the lavatories are. The gypsy stares at him for a while, and then __________

________________________________. They spend more time marching. Arriving in Auschwitz, they see this slogan written over the gate: “___________________________!” Things seem a bit better at Auschwitz by comparison, for a while. Soon, Elie is tattooed with his prisoner number: _____________. “After that I had no other name.” At the beginning, life in Auschwitz is a routine: In the morning, ___________________. At noon, ___________. At six p.m., _____________________. Then ___________________________. At nine o’clock, ________. But after three weeks, “the good days were over.” They work…the new boss is less humane. Finally, they are marched to a new camp, called ____________.

Their new job is at a warehouse for ___________________________. One day, Elie is told to report to the ________________ because he has a ___________________________ they want to remove. It doesn’t happen then, but eventually it is ripped from his mouth by a dentist using a ____________________. Another time, Elie sees the Kapo, Idek, in the back of the warehouse on a mattress with ________________________. As a punishment for seeing this, he is given the punishment of _________________________. Another time, during an air raid, a prisoner is killed trying to ___________________________________. Elie sees men hun to death. One that strikes him the most is the execution of a young boy who hands alive for a long time. “That night,” he writes, “the soup tasted of _________________.”

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the prisoners pray: “Blessed be ______________________

________________________.” But Elie cannot pray. “Why, buy why should I bless him?…Because in His great might He had created ______________________________________________, and so many __________________________

__________________?” When it is time to go to bed, Elie is amazed to hear people wishing ______________________

________________ to each other. During Yom Kippur, the Jewish prisoners should fast, in other words, eat nothing. But they are so hungry. In the end, Elie decides ___________________________________________. For the next selection, the head of their block gives them this piece of advice: __________! At the end of the selection, the head tells them that ___________________________________________, but a few days later _____________________________________

_____________________. Elie’s father tells him that __________________________________________________, but _________________________________________________________. Fortunately, at the end of the day, Elie sees that ________________________________________________. Weeks go by. During the middle of January, Elie is told he must have an operation on his ____________. After the operation, he is told to stay in the hospital for ______ weeks. Elie is warned by a nearby patient that all the sick Jews will be ________________; after all, he can trust Hitler. “He’s the only one who’s _________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________.” With the Red Army on the way, there is another evacuation. Elie decides to try to evacuate with the others. Later, he finds out that the prisoners in the hospital were __________________ two days later. As the chapter ends, the prisoners are again marching, this time out into the snow…