Night by Elie Wiesel: Chapter 3 & 4
Authored by Michelle Canfield
English, History
8th - 12th Grade
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This quiz comprehensively assesses students' understanding of Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night," specifically focusing on the harrowing events of chapters 3 and 4. Designed for high school students in grades 9-12, the questions require deep comprehension of Holocaust literature and the ability to analyze both literal plot elements and literary techniques. Students must demonstrate mastery of character development, particularly Eliezer's spiritual crisis and evolving relationship with his father, while also understanding the systematic dehumanization processes at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The quiz demands knowledge of specific Holocaust terminology, camp hierarchy, and the psychological impact of extreme trauma on both individuals and faith communities. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to distinguish between complex character motivations, identify literary devices like parallelism in the famous "Never shall I forget" passage, and understand how Wiesel's narrative techniques mirror the psychological experience of surviving genocide. Created by Michelle Canfield, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 8-12. This assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a comprehensive unit test, review activity, or formative assessment tool to gauge student comprehension before moving to subsequent chapters. Teachers can deploy this quiz as homework to encourage close reading, use it as a discussion starter for complex themes like faith under extreme adversity, or implement it as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before deeper literary analysis. The variety of question types—from factual recall about camp procedures to higher-order thinking about literary techniques—makes this quiz particularly valuable for differentiated instruction and preparing students for standardized assessments. This assessment aligns with standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4, as students demonstrate their ability to cite textual evidence, analyze character development, and interpret figurative language within this seminal work of Holocaust literature.
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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?
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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?
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
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?
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
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
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CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
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
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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?
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CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
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?
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CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
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