1. How does Elie describe himself?
2. How important is religion to the way Elie defines his identity?
3. Why do you think they refuse to believe Moshe when he returns to Sighet?
4. Do you think people really believe that Moshe is lying to them? What is the difference between saying that someone is lying and saying hat you cannot believe what he or she is saying?
5. How do the Jews of Sighet react to the arrival of the Germans? The creation of the ghettos? Their own deportation? How do you account for these responses?
6. Why do you think Elie Wiesel begins Night with the story of Moshe the Beadle?
7. What lessons does the narrator seem to learn from Moshe's experiences in telling his own story?
8. Why does Madame Schächter scream? Why does she later become silent and withdrawn? How do people react the first time she screams? How do they respond when her screams continue? How would you respond?
9. Is she a madwoman? A prophet? Or a witness? What is the difference
between the three labels?
10. How is Madame Schächter like Moshe the Beadle? Does she, too,
know or sense something that others refuse to believe?
