Elie Wiesel's NIGHT Chapter 4 QUIZ
Authored by Erin Hoyt
English
10th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on Chapter 4 of Elie Wiesel's memoir *Night*, covering the harrowing experiences at the Buna concentration camp. Designed for 10th grade students, this assessment tests reading comprehension and literary analysis skills appropriate for high school English Language Arts. Students must demonstrate detailed recall of specific events, character interactions, and narrative elements while also engaging with deeper symbolic meaning. The questions progress from basic factual comprehension about camp locations, characters like Idek and the dentist, and specific incidents involving beatings and theft, to more sophisticated analysis of symbolism, particularly regarding the hanging of the young pipel and its representation of spiritual crisis. Students need strong close reading abilities to track character relationships, understand cause-and-effect sequences, and interpret Wiesel's use of metaphor and symbolism to convey the psychological and spiritual destruction of the Holocaust experience. Created by Erin Hoyt, an English teacher in Paraguay who teaches grade 10. This quiz serves as an effective formative assessment tool to gauge student understanding of one of literature's most powerful Holocaust testimonies. Teachers can deploy this assessment after students complete Chapter 4 as a comprehension check, use it as a review activity before class discussions about the text's themes, or assign it as homework to reinforce key plot points and literary elements. The quiz works particularly well as a warm-up activity to launch deeper classroom conversations about Wiesel's craft and the historical significance of his testimony. The mixture of literal comprehension and symbolic interpretation questions prepares students for more advanced analytical writing assignments. This assessment aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 for textual evidence and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 for theme development, while supporting students' ability to engage meaningfully with complex Holocaust literature that remains central to high school English curricula.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 sec • 1 pt
What was the name of the camp that Elie and his father arrived at during the beginning of Chapter 4?
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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
10 sec • 1 pt
Where were they first taken to work?
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
Who is known for their "fits of rage?"
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
What happened to the dentist?
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
Why didn't Elie feel pity for the dentist?
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
What was Elie's father beaten with?
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
What did Franek give Elie for his gold crown?
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CCSS.RL.9-10.1
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