Night Chapters 1-3
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Night Chapters 1-3
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This quiz focuses on the opening chapters of Elie Wiesel's "Night," a Holocaust memoir that serves as essential reading for understanding one of history's most devastating genocides. Designed for 8th and 9th grade students, the assessment targets reading comprehension, literary analysis, and historical context skills. Students must demonstrate their ability to recall specific plot details, identify key characters like Moshe the Beadle and Dr. Mengele, and understand the progression from the initial German occupation of Sighet through the horrific arrival at Auschwitz. The questions require students to analyze literary devices such as foreshadowing and figurative language, connect historical terminology like fascism and xenophobia to the text's events, and recognize major themes including survival, faith, and indifference. To succeed, students need strong literal comprehension skills, the ability to distinguish between different types of figurative language, and sufficient background knowledge about World War II and the Holocaust to contextualize Wiesel's experiences. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying Holocaust literature in grades 8-9. The assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a reading check to ensure students have completed the assigned chapters, a review tool before class discussions about the memoir's deeper themes, or formative assessment to gauge comprehension before moving to more complex analytical tasks. Teachers can use this quiz as homework to reinforce reading accountability, as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before literature circle discussions, or as preparation for essay writing about Wiesel's narrative techniques and historical significance. The questions align with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 for citing textual evidence, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 for determining meaning of figurative language, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7 for integrating visual and textual information in understanding historical events.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In Chapter 1, who tries to warn the Jews in Sighet about the German's murdering Jews?
A local school master
A Rabbi
Elie's Father
Moshe The Beadle
A Hungarian Cop
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why are the Jewish citizens of Sighet not concerned when the German soldiers first occupy their town?
They feel the war will soon be over
United Nations will protect them
They have an escape plan
The Germans they encounter are polite.
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was NOT a detail from description of Moishe's stories from when he was deported to Galicia
He described babies being used as target practice
He describes people digging their own graves
He describes his wife's death
He describes faking his own death in order to escape
He describes a man begging to die before his children are killed in front of him.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does Madame Schacter says she sees during the train ride?
Dead children
Gas Chambers
Visions of the future
Fire
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Since Madame Schacter's cries ended up being true, her hallucinations are an example of:
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Foreshadowing
Plot
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do Elie and his family see when they arrive at the camp?
Nothing but darkness
Flames rising from a chimney
Their loved ones who were taken before
Piles of blankets and shoes
Jews in the gas chambers
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"You'll be shot like dogs!" is WHAT type of figurative language?
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Hyperbole
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
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