Question

q1 - 38 - section 1&2 - fill in the blanks (24 points)
directions: use the book to fill in the blanks in order to complete a summary of sections 1 & 2 of night.
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elie wiesel and his family live in the town of 1. sighet, which is in the country of 2. hungary. elie really wants to learn about 3. kabbala, but he can not find a master to teach him. eventually he finds 4. moishe, who is a poor old jewish man that lives in town. elie enjoys learning, but his studies get put on hold when all the foreign born jews are 5. deported and 6. ____ is a foreign born jew. no one hears about what has happened to the foreign born jews until one day elie runs into his long lost teacher. he tells elie, and everyone who will listen, about his horrific time in the forest of 7. __, where the jews were taken and slaughtered. he even watched as gunners used 8. __ as target practice. the jews did not believe this awful tale, and they called him 9. ____ for telling such a crazy story.
time passed and life seemed to go back to normal. no one believed that the war would come to their town. that is until one day when a 10. ____ car appeared on the street and from that moment on everything changed. the germans moved into the homes of the jews. they seemed nice enough and one german officer gave 11. __ to the women of the house he was staying at. however, these living conditions didn’t last long. 12. __ were formed and the jews were forced to live in them. within this compound the jews formed a 13. __ in order to maintain some sort of order in their lives. elie’s father was a member and, unfortunately, he was the one who had to break the news that the 14. __ were to be wiped out and that 15. ____ was going to happen and no one knew to where. only one man knew, and if he told anyone he was going to be shot.
on the day that elie and his family were 16. ____, they had to pile into a 17. __ with 18. __ other people. the smell and heat were pretty much intolerable. on top of the miserable conditions, a woman named 19. __ went crazy and kept on yelling that she saw 20. __. finally men had to gag and beat her to make her quiet. the ironic thing is that once the train stopped at 21. __ the reception center of 22. __ the first thing the jews saw was 23. __ and they smell burning 24. ____.

Explanation:

These blanks are based on Elie Wiesel's memoir Night. The answers are derived directly from the key plot details and setting of the book's first two sections.

Answer:

1. Sighet
2. Hungary
3. Kabbala
4. Moishe the Beadle
5. deported
6. Moishe the Beadle
7. Galicia
8. Jewish infants
9. a madman
10. German
11. chocolates
12. Ghettos
13. Jewish Council
14. ghettos
15. deportation
16. deported
17. cattle car
18. 80
19. Madame Schächter
20. flames / a huge fire
21. Auschwitz
22. Birkenau
23. flames
24. flesh