Jeopardy BoardNight Characters

Holocaust Events/Terms

Jewish Terminology

Literary Devices

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Final Jeopardy

Characters Continued

$100 Answer from Night Characters

This character was “a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emotion….The Jewish community of Sighet held him in the greatest esteem.”

$100 Question from Night Characters

Who is Mr. Wiesel (Elie’s father)?

$200 Answer from Night Characters

“One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.”

$200 Question from Night Characters

Who is Elie Wiesel?

$300 Answer from Night Characters

“He was very poor and lived humbly…Nobody felt embarrassed by him…He was a past master in the art of making himself insignificant, of seeming invisible.”

$300 Question from Night Characters

Who is Moshe the Beadle?

$400 Answer from Night Characters

“She continued to scream, breathless, her voice broken by sobs. ‘Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace.’”

$400 Question from Night Characters

Who is Madame Schachter?

$500 Answer from Night Characters

“…a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle; a conductor’s baton in his hand…The baton moved unremittingly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.”

$500 Question from Night Characters

Who is Dr. Mengele?

$100 Answer from Characters Cont’d

“fair hair well combed, a red coat over her arm, a little girl of seven.”

$100 Question from Characters Cont’d

Who is Tzipora?

$200 Answer from Characters Cont’d

“Weeping bitterly, she begged us to come to her village, where she could give us safe refuge.”

$200 Question from Characters Cont’d

Who is Martha?

$300 Answer from Characters Cont’d

“’The only thing that keeps me alive is that Reizel and the children are still alive. If it wasn’t for them, I couldn’t keep going.’”

$300 Question from Characters Cont’d

Who is Stein of Antwerp?

$400 Answer from Characters Cont’d

“He was playing his life. The whole of his life gliding on the strings…He played as he would never play again.”

$400 Question from Characters Cont’d

Who is Juliek?

$500 Answer from Characters Cont’d

“if he could have gone on believing in God, if he could have seen a proof of God in this Calvary, he would not have been taken by the selection. But as soon as he felt the first cracks forming in his faith, he had lost his reason for struggling and had begun to die.”

$500 Question from Characters Cont’d

Who is Akiba Drumer?

$100 Answer from Holocaust Events/Terms

Hitler’s top officers, who were in charge of the concentration camps.

$100 Question from Holocaust Events/Terms

Who were the SS?

$200 Answer from Holocaust Events/Terms

The night in which officers destroyed synagogues and Jewish owned businesses.

$200 Question from Holocaust Events/Terms

What was Kristallnacht?

$300 Answer from Holocaust Events/Terms

The camp where Elie’s father dies.

$300 Question from Holocaust Events/Terms

What is Buchenwald?

$400 Answer from Holocaust Events/Terms

Long and harsh struggle for the Jewish prisoners, where thousands died due to the weather conditions, being trampled, and shot for slowing down.

$400 Question from Holocaust Events/Terms

What were Death Marches?

$500 Answer from Holocaust Events/Terms

Removal of Jews to concentration camps.

$500 Question from Holocaust Events/Terms

What was deportation?

$100 Answer from Jewish Terminology

Jewish place of worship

$100 Question from Jewish Terminology

What is a synagogue?

$200 Answer from Jewish Terminology

The Jewish New Year

$200 Question from Jewish Terminology

What is Rosh Hashanah?

$300 Answer from Jewish Terminology

The Jewish day of atonement, which is when Elie chooses not to fast.

$300 Question from Jewish Terminology

What is Yom Kippur?

$400 Answer from Jewish Terminology

The prejudice against Jewish people.

$400 Question from Jewish Terminology

What is anti-Semitism?

$500 Answer from Jewish Terminology

A religious leader and person authorized to make decisions on issues of Jewish law.

$500 Question from Jewish Terminology

Who is a rabbi?*Bonus: What was the name of the rabbi whose son abandoned him while marching?

$100 Answer from Literary Devices

“He threw himself on me like a wild beast…” (53).

$100 Question from Literary Devices

What is a simile?

$200 Answer from Literary Devices

“We were withered trees in the heart of the desert” (37).

$200 Question from Literary Devices

What is a metaphor?

$300 Answer from Literary Devices

“…we were the only men on earth” (87).

$300 Question from Literary Devices

What is a hyperbole?

$400 Answer from Literary Devices

“There was a woman among us, a certain Mrs. Schachter. She was in her fifties and her ten-year-old son was with her, crouched in a corner. Her husband and two older sons had been deported with the first transport, by mistake. The separation had totally shattered her” (24).

$400 Question from Literary Devices

What is characterization?

$500 Answer from Literary Devices

“The ghetto was awake” (14).

$500 Question from Literary Devices

What is personification?

Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy Question:This was the name of the

rabbi whose son abandoned him during the

march