Section Four: Answer all questions thoroughly and hand-write on loose-leaf paper. 1. Describe the atmosphere at Buna. What does Wiesel imply by “well-dressed”? 2. Why do the officers take an interest in the young boys as they come into the camp? Why do you think Wiesel allow the reader to make assumptions before relaying the truth? How does the parenthetical insertion add to the fact that Night is a memoir rather than a piece of fiction? 3. Explain the conflict that ensues over Eliezer’s shoes. How does the conflict negate everything the men and boys have been told about surviving in the concentration camps? 4. How is the situation with the shoes ironic? 5. How is animal imagery used in the first few pages of Section Four? What is the effect of this imagery? 6. Who is Juliek? How does Eliezer meet him? Describe the relationship between them. 7. Throughout the memoir Eliezer and the other prisoners are treated like animals. Cite an example of another image that Wiesel uses to describe how they were treated. 8. Who does Eliezer become friends with at the camp? What connection does he find between their lives? Explain whether or not you believe it is impossible to have true friends in the concentration camps. 9. Who is Alphonse? Explain the benefit of having Alphonse as a leader of the block. Why do you think Wiesel does not spend much time talking about Alphonse? 10. Why is Eliezer summoned to the dentist? How does Eliezer describe the dentist? What is ironic about his appearance? 11. How does Eliezer escape the dentist the first time? What does the dentist tell him? 12. How does Eliezer escape the dentist permanently? Why do you think Elie Wiesel includes the account of the dentist in his memoir when he does not lose his teeth to the dentist? 13. Explain how the following scene functions as foreshadowing:  “In fact, I was pleased with what was happening to him: my gold crown was safe. It could be useful to me one day, to buy something, some bread or even time to live.” 14. After reading about the interchange between Eliezer and the young French woman,  characterize the young woman. 15. In the memoir, a majority of the animal imagery is associated with the Jews. How does Wiesel alter the animal imagery in the description of Eliezer’s beating? Explain the purpose behind the change in images. 16. How does Wiesel interrupt the narration in the passage that begins with, “MANY YEARS LATER, in Paris, I sat in the Métro ...”? What is the effect of the interruption? 17. Cite the simile that Eliezer uses when describing the beating that his father receives. What image does it create for the reader? 18. Describe Eliezer’s internal conflict while he watches his father getting beaten. 19. Read the confrontation between Franek and Eliezer. Using examples from the text, explain how Franek is different from the dentist who first tried to take Eliezer’s tooth and how Eliezer tries to escape the situation differently than the f.

1. Section Four: Answer all questions thoroughly and hand-write
on loose-leaf paper.
1. Describe the atmosphere at Buna. What does Wiesel imply by
“well-dressed”?
2. Why do the officers take an interest in the young boys as they
come into the camp? Why
do you think Wiesel allow the reader to make assumptions
before relaying the truth? How
does the parenthetical insertion add to the fact that
Night
is a memoir rather than a piece
of fiction?
3. Explain the conflict that ensues over Eliezer’s shoes. How
does the conflict negate everything the men and boys have been
told about surviving in the concentration camps?
4. How is the situation with the shoes ironic?
5. How is animal imagery used in the first few pages of Section
Four? What is the effect of
this imagery?
6. Who is Juliek? How does Eliezer meet him? Describe the
relationship between them.
7. Throughout the memoir Eliezer and the other prisoners are
treated like animals. Cite an
example of another image that Wiesel uses to describe how they
were treated.
8. Who does Eliezer become friends with at the camp? What
connection does he find between their lives? Explain whether or

2. not you believe it is impossible to have true friends in the
concentration camps.
9. Who is Alphonse? Explain the benefit of having Alphonse as
a leader of the block. Why
do you think Wiesel does not spend much time talking about
Alphonse?
10. Why is Eliezer summoned to the dentist? How does Eliezer
describe the dentist? What is
ironic about his appearance?
11. How does Eliezer escape the dentist the first time? What
does the dentist tell him?
12. How does Eliezer escape the dentist permanently? Why do
you think Elie Wiesel includes
the account of the dentist in his memoir when he does not lose
his teeth to the dentist?
13. Explain how the following scene functions as
foreshadowing: “In fact, I was pleased with what was
happening to him: my gold crown was safe. It could be useful to
me one day, to buy something, some bread or even time to live.”
14. After reading about the interchange between Eliezer and the
young French woman, characterize the young woman.
15. In the memoir, a majority of the animal imagery is
associated with the Jews. How does
Wiesel alter the animal imagery in the description of Eliezer’s
beating? Explain the purpose
behind the change in images.
16. How does Wiesel interrupt the narration in the passage that
begins with, “MANY YEARS

3. LATER, in Paris, I sat in the Métro ...”? What is the effect of
the interruption?
17. Cite the simile that Eliezer uses when describing the beating
that his father receives. What
image does it create for the reader?
18. Describe Eliezer’s internal conflict while he watches his
father getting beaten.
19. Read the confrontation between Franek and Eliezer. Using
examples from the text, explain how Franek is different from
the dentist who first tried to take Eliezer’s tooth and how
Eliezer tries to escape the situation differently than the first
time. What might this story tell the audience about the
characters of the two?
20. Explain Eliezer’s statement: “I had lost my crown for
nothing.”
21. When Eliezer sees Idek with the young Polish girl at the
depot, what results? Analyze the
description of the scene and explain how it is different than the
other brutal scenes in the
memoir thus far.
22. Cite several examples of figurative language that are used in
the section that begins with,
“ONE SUNDAY, as half of our group,...” and ends with, “In the
afternoon, we cheerfully
went to clear the ruins.” Explain what you believe to be the
meaning that Wiesel is trying
to create through these images.
23. Explain the conflict that Eliezer faces as he is watching the
Buna factory being bombed.

4. 24. Explain the significance of the following lines by first
explaining the situation in which
the line is contextualized. “We were not afraid. And yet, if a
bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds
of inmates’ lives. But we no longer feared death, in any event
not this particular death. Every bomb that hit filled us with joy,
gave us renewed confidence.”
25. Explain the metaphor in the following line: “The last sound
of the American plane dissipated in the wind and there we were,
in our cemetery.”
26. How has the tone in the camp changed since the invasion?
27. Describe the ceremony and the demeanor of the first boy
who is hung in the gallows. How
do Juliek and Eliezer respond? Why do you think Juliek and
Eliezer react in the way that
they do?
28. What is unusual about the hangings that Eliezer has seen in
the camp? How does Eliezer
explain the phenomena?
29. Provide an explanation for the parenthetical insertion in the
passage beginning with, I
WATCHED other hangings.” How does this story relate to
Eliezer?
30. Who is the sad-eyed angel?
31. Why does Eliezer refer to the three gallows that are going to
be used to murder the young
pipel “three black ravens”?

5. 32. Why would the guards seem more worried to put to death
the “sad-eyed angel”?
33. How is the people’s response to this hanging different than
the response to the previous
hangings?
34. Explain the significance of this event for Eliezer in terms of
his faith.
35. Wiesel is careful to use repeating images at the end of the
fourth section in the murders of
the two boys. Cite the repetition and explain its effect.