1. How does the author use the phrase ""crammed into cattle cars"" to foreshadow the fate of the deportees?

2. Which phrases from the excerpt show a lack of sympathy or concern for the deportees? Identify at least 2 examples

3. What happened once the train crossed into Polish territory?

4. What does the word Kristallnacht mean?

In Night by Elie Wiesel

Answer: The correct answer is : 1. They packed the Jews in cattle cars and tormented them in unbearable conditions. There was almost no air to breathe, the heat was intense, there was no room to sit and everyone was hungry and thirsty.

2. The Nazis treated the Jews as if they were less than human, cruelty generates cruelty.

Due to the dehumanized treatment of the Jews, some deportees in the cattle car lose their modesty and sense of sexual inhibition.

3. Deportation trains were delivered to the Gestapo on the Polish border. The Gestapo is the German secret police, this was told by Moshe and that the Jews were forced to dig mass graves for them and were killed by the Gestapo.

4. Kristallnacht means Night of the Red Crystals. It was when the great massacre of Jews organized by the Nazis occurred and destroyed thousands of synagogues, shops and homes of Jews.