Night: Chapter 1 People, Place, and Things

Question 1

Who is Moishe the Beadle?

Answer 1

adviser, instructor

Question 2

What is Sighet?

Answer 2

A town in Transylvania

Question 3

What is Transylvania?

Answer 3

Region in Romania

Question 4

What is Talmud?

Answer 4

The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology

Question 5

What is synagogue?

Answer 5

Jewish assembly

Question 6

What is Ghetto?

Answer 6

Jewish quarter in a city

Question 7

What is kabbalah?

Answer 7

Jewish mysticism

Question 8

Who is Hilda, Bea, Elie, and Tzipora?

Answer 8

They are siblings

Question 9

What is Zohar?

Answer 9

Group of books of fundamental work in literature of Jewish mystical thought

Question 10

What is Rosh Hashanah?

Answer 10

Jewish new year

Question 11

What is Zionism?

Answer 11

Protection of a Jewish nation

Question 12

What is a Fascist?

Answer 12

suppports or promotes fascism (dictator often violently suppreses opposistion)

Question 13

What is a yellow star?

Answer 13

Jews had to wear around their neck

Question 14

What is Anti Semitism?

Answer 14

Prejudice against Jewish people

Question 15

What is gestapo?

Answer 15

Secret police