Night

“Suddenly, the sirens began to scream.” 
What type of figurative language is this example?

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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Which sentence could be a main idea of "Night"?

• The Nazis imprisoned many European Jews, making them do harsh work and labor.
• Elie is destroyed by the treatment he receives in the Holocaust.
• The Jews were brutally treated and killed in Europe during the Holocaust.
• Elie overcomes the struggles of being a prisoner in the Holocaust.

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Which would be the most important detail to include in a summary of "Night"?

• Elie almost lost his foot at Auschwitz.
• Elie was a Hungarian Jew who was imprisoned during the Holocaust.
• Moishe the Beadle tried to warn the Jews of Sighet.
• Dr. Mengele chose who would live and who would die at camp.

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From what point of view is "Night" told?

• Third person
• First person
• Third person, omniscient
• Second person

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“I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast.” What two items are being compared in this simile?

• The concentration camp and a wild jungle
• The wild beast and the cauldron
• The cauldron and Elie
• Elie and a wild beast

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Based on the outcome of "Night" what inference can we make about Elie?

• He is angry and vengeful.
• He is strong and determined.
• He is weak and insolent.
• He is gentle and unchanged.

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On page 69, Wiesel eats a piece of bread in defiance of the Yom Kippur fast. He says, "I felt a great void opening." What does that mean?

• He feels the loss of his love of and faith in God.
• He is really hungry.
• He no longer believes God exists.
• He feels guilty for eating the bread.

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After the selection, what do Yossi and Tibbi tell Eliezer that makes him laugh?

• His father was not chosen for selection.

• They say they were not chosen for selection.

• They tell him Franek was punished for his affair with the Polish girl.

• They say that he ran so fast, the SS could not write down his number.

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What does Eliezer's father leave him as an "inheritance"?

• He tells Eliezer where the valuables were buried in the cellar.
• He leaves Eliezer his gold tooth.
• He leaves Eliezer his copy of the Kabbala bible.
• He leaves Eliezer a knife and a spoon.

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Why does Eliezer go to the infirmary/hospital?

• His tooth gets infected and he gets an abscess.
• His foot gets infected and begins to swell.
• He has trouble breathing and develops a bad cough.
• He goes blind.

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