Night – by Elie Wiesel

Night – Closing Activity

Read over the following questions and write your responses in the spaces provided.

1. Night focuses on a single year in Eliezer’s life. Identify some of the internal and external
conflicts he faced that year.

2. In the next to the last sentence in the book, Eliezer says that when he looked in a mirror after
liberation, he saw a corpse gazing back at him. He ends the book by stating, “The look in his
eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” What does he mean by that statement?

3. How did the relationship between Eliezer and his father change in the course of the year on
which the book focuses? How do you account for that change?

4. What is the meaning of the title, Night?

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5. Why has Night remained a powerful memoir and testimony on the Holocaust?

6. How does the reading of testimony help us to understand the impact the Holocaust has on an
individual?

7. Explain what Eliezer’s story means to you.