(Assignment 3) Chapter 1 Night Questions

1. Who is Moishe/Moche the Beadle, describe him.
2. Why did Eliezer cry when he prayed?
3. When Moishe/Moche returned what did he tell?
4. Why didn't people believe him?
5. List the ways the Jewish people of Sighet lost their rights (List 5).
6. What is a Ghetto?
7. Why did citizens resist the truth , even when it was in front of them?
8. Describe the conditions in the train (at the end of the chapter).
   
   

1. He was poor and lived in utter penury. He was an insignificant and invisible man. Physically as awkward as a clown.
2. He really wasn't sure why he would cry while he prayed. something inside him just had the need to cry.
3. He went telling his story about where they took then and what they did. He spoke only of what he had seen.
4. Because people thought that he just wanted pity and for them to feel sorry for him.
5. *They closed the synagogues.

*You couldn't get out of your house

*Yellow star

*Put them in the ghetto

*Curfew

*They couldn't have anything valuable

6. Community only for a specific type of person.

7. They were afraid that Nazi's would go and get them

8. Every cattle car carried 80 people and if any of them would try escaping everybody

in the cattle car would get shot.