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 Parallel
Squealer
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.