1.
Put the number in front of each event with a number 1 for the first event and a number 9 for the last one and numbers 2 through 8 in order of when they happened for those in between.
A) The Jews of Sighet are herded into a small ghetto.
B) The Jews of Sighet are loaded in cattle cars and are held captive in sealed cattle cars for three days.
C) "Men to the left! Women to the right!" - Elie is separated from his mother and sister
D) After Idek beats him, a French girl comforts Elie.
E) a young child with an angelic face is hung and slowly dies in agony
F) the Budapest radio announced that the Facist party had come into power.
G) Chlomo Wiesel dies - his skull crushed by a Nazi officer
H) Juliek plays a fragment from Beethoven's concerto before he dies.
I) Moshe the Beadle returns to Sighet with the news of Nazi mass murder of Jews.
2.
Put the name of the character by his or her description:
A. a 50 year old woman whose hysterical cries of fire torture the whole cattle car of Jews.
B. the father in Night, who is a leader in the Jewish community
C. the narrator of the memoir, Night
D. the one who warns the Jews that the Nazis want to kill them
E. the relative who asks if his children are still alive
Moshe the Beadle
Elie Wiesel
Chlomo Wiesel,
Stein of Antwerp
Madame Schachter
3.
Select the correct word for each definition
A. a prison guard who is also a prisoner
B. a prayer Jews recite in memory of a loved one who died.
C. a holiday called the Jewish New Year
D. a holiday where Jews must fast
E. the belief that Jews must once more become a nation with land of their own in Palestine
F. a caretaker in the synagogue
G. a Jewish holiday that is celebrated for eight days each Spring to recall the exodus of Jews from Egypt where they were held in slavery.
Rosh Hashanah
Zionism
Yom Kippur
Passover
Kaddish
Beadle
Kapo
4.
Elie witnesses the death of a child, a pipel. Which of the following statments about the child are true?
A) He had a refined and beautiful face.
B) He did not die right away; instead he struggled for half an hour.
C) Even the Lagerkapo refused to act as executioner for the hanging of this child.
5.
1. After Idek beats Eli, the French girl sooths him by
A) a) giving him her rations of bread and soup
B) b) saying words of encouragement
C) c) telling Elie she is loves him
6.
2. When the French girl is with Eliezer, she takes a risk when she
A) a) tries to escape
B) b) refuses the advances of a Nazi officer
C) c) speaks German
7.
What word means the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group?
A) Holocaust
B) genocide
C) pogrom
D) facism
8.
What word means ill-feeling or hatred toward Jews?
A) prejudice
B) anit-Semitisn
C) genocide
D) totalitarianism
9.
What word means a generalization of a person; a person who is regarded, not as an individual, but as a member of a group or nationality?
A) stereotype
B) genocide
C) prejudice
D) scapegoat
10.
On the last few pages of the novel, what happens on April 10th?
A) Elie's father died
B) Elie lost his gold crown
C) the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald - Elie was free.
11.
A-7713 represents _________________
A) Chlomo Wiesel
B) Moishe the Beadle
C) Elie Wiesel
D) The Kapos
12.
Moshe the Beadle attempts to warn the Jews of Sighet.
A) True
B) False
13.
When the prisoners were liberated, their first act as free men was to seek revenge on their captors.
A) True
B) False
14.
AT the end of the novel, when Elie finally sees himself in the mirror, he sees _____________________
A) the vision of his father
B) a corpse
C) the new clothes he was given by the guards
15.
Why are the prisoners so angry with the newly arrived Jews? Select all the answers that apply.
A) They new prisoners were stronger and healthier.
B) Their arrival means that people on the outsisde did not know about their plight.
C) There would be less food.
D) This would delay their dental appointments.
16.
Madame Schacter's hallucinations foreshadow _______________
A) Elie's eventual release
B) the crematories
C) the enslavement of the Jews
17.
At the end of the train ride from the Sighet ghetto, where do Elie and his family arrive?
A) Birkenau-Auschwitz
B) Transylvania
C) Antwerp
18.
Where did Elie last see his mother and younger sister?
A) Auschwitz
B) Dachau
C) Bergen-Belsen
19.
At what point in the novel does a prisoner ask,"Where is God Where can he be now?" and Elie says "Here he is. Here. He has been hanged on this gallows."
A) When his father dies.
B) When a comdemned prison shouted "Long live liberty" and was hanged as all the prisoners were ordered to watch.
C) After a young boy with the face of a sad angel was hangeed and died a slow, painful death.
20.
As Elie's father lies dying, the head of the block gives Elie some advice. What is it?
A) You must never lose your faith, even when the sword hangs over your head.
B) Do not be afraid. Stay together
C) Don't give him your rations of bread and soup. You have them.