What is the setting of Night English II – Review Guide for Second Semester Final
I. Night –
1. Who are the following characters:
a. Eliezer/Elie Wiesel:______
b. Madame Schaechter:______
c. Franek:______
d. Juliek:______
e. Idek:______
f. Moshe the Beadle:______
g. Rabbi Eliahu:______
Part I:
1. What is the story of Moshe the Beadle? Why is he important to Eliezer and the memoir “Night”?
______2. What is the setting?
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Part II:
1. Who is Madame Schaechter? What did she see in her visions?
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2. How does his first night in Auschwitz affect Elie for the rest of his life?
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Part III:
1. How did Elie feel after the hanging of the pipel?
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2. How does Elie describe himself? What has he been reduced to?
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3. What impact did these hangings have on his faith?
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Part IV:
1. How does Elie feel about fasting on Yom Kippur? What is happening to his faith in God?
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Part IV:
1. Describe Elie’s behavior towards your father during his father’s illness?
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2. What is his internal conflict in this section of the memoir?
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3. What is relationship between our stories and our identity?
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4. Why did Elie Wiesel decide to write about the Holocaust?
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5. To what extent are we all witnesses to history and messengers to humanity?
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II. Animal Farm –
1. Who are the following characters:
Character / Function in novel / Real Life ParallelSquealer
Boxer
Snowball
Old Major
Moses
Napoleon
The Dogs
Mr. Jones
Benjamin
Mollie
What is a satire?
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What is an allegory?
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What moral message did Orwell want to convey through “Animal Farm”?
______Who emerges as leaders among the animals and why?
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What are the Seven Commandments?
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How do the pigs manipulate the other animals into following their rules?
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Why did Napoleon chase Snowball off the farm? Why did he start executing other animals?
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Why is Boxer sold to the knackers?
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How does the book end? What is ironic about the end?
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III. Vocabulary – Study units 7-12.