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Night by Elie Wiesel: Chapter 3

Authored by Danielle Filas

English, History

8th - 12th Grade

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This quiz focuses on Chapter 3 of Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir "Night," specifically examining the protagonist's arrival and initial experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp. The content is appropriate for high school students in grades 9-12, as it requires mature comprehension of complex themes including survival, dehumanization, loss of faith, and moral choices under extreme circumstances. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to analyze both literal plot events and Wiesel's sophisticated literary techniques, including his use of parallelism, repetition, and varied sentence structure to convey psychological trauma. The questions assess students' ability to understand character motivation, identify literary devices, recognize historical context, and analyze how form supports meaning in Holocaust literature. Created by Danielle Filas, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 8-12. This assessment serves as an excellent tool for checking comprehension after students complete this pivotal chapter, whether used as a warm-up discussion starter, homework assignment, or formative assessment to gauge understanding before moving forward in the text. The quiz effectively supports close reading instruction by requiring students to recall specific details while also analyzing Wiesel's craft as a writer, making it valuable for both literature circles and whole-class novel studies. Teachers can use these questions to facilitate deeper discussions about survival ethics, religious faith under persecution, and the power of memoir as testimony. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4, as it requires students to cite textual evidence, determine themes, and analyze how an author's choices create meaning and tone.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happens to the bags that the Jews of Sighet carried with them on the trains?

The bags are left behind.
They take the bags into the barracks.
The Nazis dump the bags into the fires.
The older prisoners steal everything inside the bags.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does Eliezer lie about when questioned by the SS?

his age
his height
his weight
his religion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL. 11-12.9

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why does Eliezer lie and tell the SS that he is a farmer, instead of admitting he is a student?

He wants to work in the fields and not in the school.
He wants them to know he shouldn't be in the camp.
He wants them to think he is strong and can do work.
He wants to be a farmer anyway, so he's reinventing himself.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL. 11-12.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When the Wiesel family exits the train, the SS officer says, "Men to the left! Women to the right!" This is the last time Elie Wiesel will ever see

his father.
his mother and his sister Tzipora.
his sisters Hilda and Bea.
his mother and all his sisters.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL. 11-12.9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Wiesel uses changes in sentence structure and length, repetition, and ellipses (...) to

show how cruel the Nazis are.
add suspense and slow down time for the reader.
confuse the reader.
recreate how the Nazis talked.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the "Never shall I forget" section of this chapter, Wiesel uses what technique to emphasize the fact that he has, for the first time, faced death?

Personification
Hyperbole
Irony
Parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When one of the veteran prisoners finds out that Eliezer and the other people from the train have never heard of Auschwitz, how does he react?

He falls to his knees and cries.
He wants to throw himself onto the electrified barbed wire.
He laughs and laughs.
He is angry.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

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