Question

When Moishe the Beadle returned to Sighet and tried to warn the Jews, why didn’t they want to listen to him?

Question 1 options:

Most people didn't want to believe that man was capable of such inhumanity to man.


He was not a trustworthy man.


He was a stranger to them, so they would not believe what he said.


The Jews already knew what was happening in concentration camps.

Question 2 (8 points)
What is significant to the Jewish people about being ejected from their homes on the Sabbath?

Question 2 options:

The Sabbath was a hard-working day of the week and all the Jews were away doing their jobs.


Jewish people rarely celebrate the Sabbath, so it was a huge coincidence that they were taken on that day.


The Sabbath is the Jewish holy day of the week, in which they refrain from work.


It was the end of the week and there was no traveling on the weekends.

Question 3 (8 points)
The Kaddish is a Jewish prayer recited for the dead. In Night, many of the prisoners recite the Kaddish as they march to the crematorium. Of what literary device is this an example ?

Question 3 options:

verbal irony


oxymoron


paradox


situational irony

Question 4 (8 points)


When he looks in the mirror at the end of the novel, Elie says a corpse is staring back at him. What symbolism is shown in this situation?

Question 4 options:

Elie's actually dead


a vision of his mother and father


his faith in both God and humanity have died


this has all been a dream

Answer 1

1. Option C

2. Option C

3. Option B

4. Option C

Step-by-step explanation:

1. When Moishe the Beadle returned to Sighet and tried to warn the jews about what happened to him, they did not listened him. They considered him mad. He wanted to save the villagers after what had happened to him.

2. Sabbath is a festival celebrated by he Jewish people. On that day the people take a relax in their week day work. They come out of their homes and celebrate this day.

3. oxymoron means a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

4. When Elie looked at him in the mirror, he was not able to believe his eyes.It seems from his closing vision that Eliezer believes that without hope and faith, after having seen the unimaginable, he might as well be dead.