2. what is significant to the jewish people about being ejected from their homes on the sabbath?

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.

3. 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?

verbal irony

oxymoron

paradox

situational irony

4. 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?

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.

5. when the prisoners were liberated, their first act as free men were throwing themselves on the food and other provisions. why is it significant that they don’t rush to acts of revenge?

they are too happy to be freed.

all they care about is returning home.

they have lost the will to fight and know that they don't have strength to stand up to such terrors.

they don't realize they have been freed.

6. mrs. schächter had lost her mind. on the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. she kept asking why she had been separated from her family. later, her sobs and screams became hysterical. on the third night, as we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing, a piercing cry broke the silence: "fire! i see a fire! i see a fire! "there was a moment of panic. who had screamed? it was mrs. schächter. standing in the middle of the car, in the faint light filtering through the windows, she looked like a withered tree in a field of wheat. she was howling, pointing through the window: "look! look at this fire! this terrible fire! have mercy on me! "
some pressed against the bars to see. there was nothing. only the darkness of night.

based on the passage above, madame schächter hallucinations are an example of the literary device of what literary device, and of what do they predict?

foreshadowing; the crematories.

flashback; elie's eventual release.

alliteration; the enslavement of the jews.

symbolism; elie's sister's death.

7. throughout night, wiesel alludes to the jewish holidays at different parts of the year and explains what the prisoners do during that time. what role do these allusions to the jewish faith and calendar play in the memoir?

they point out how strong the prisoners' faith is.

they show that the prisoners often reflect on their history when they survived slavery in egypt as a way to survive auschwitz.

they demonstrate the jews' anger at having been imprisoned for their faith.

they serve as a sort of calendar to mark how long they were imprisoned.

“hey, kid, how old are you? ”
the man interrogating me was an inmate. i could not
see his face, but his voice was weary and warm.
“fifteen.”
“no. you’re eighteen.”
“but i’m not,” i said. “i’m fifteen.”
“fool. listen to what i say.”
then he asked my father, who answered:
“i’m fifty.”
“no.” the man now sounded angry. “not fifty. you’re
forty. do you hear? eighteen and forty.”

8. when elie and his father first arrived at their destination, they were told not to tell their real ages and were given false ones to use instead. why did the inmate tell them to lie?

the new ages made them look and would give them an easier time at auschwitz.

only adults of a certain age had special privileges at auschwitz.

the inmate just liked making religious people tell lies.

the youngest and oldest jews were the first to be killed because they were considered weaker and of no use.