Night Chapter 1 Quiz

Who is the first character introduced in Night?

• Elie's mother
• Moshe the Beadle
• Adolf Hitler
• Elie Wiesel

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What town is Elie from?

• Transylvania
• Hungary
• Poland
• Sighet

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Why is Moshe the Beadle deported?

• He is a foreign Jew
• He is wanted for a crime he committed
• He is disabled
• None of the above

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Who tries to warn the Jews of Sighet that they are in danger of being deported? 

• Elie's mother
• Elie
• Elie's father
• Moshe the Beadle

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Wiesel writes, Monday passed like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first daylight hours."  What is the purpose of this simile?

• To demonstrate the fear that the Jews felt
• To help the reader get a better visual of the sky
• To show that time passed quickly
• None of the above

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What news does Elie's father receive at the late-night council meeting?

• The Jews of Sighet would be killed immediately
• The Jews of Sighet would be deported to a concentration camp
• The Jews of Sighet would be deported to America
• The Jews of Sighet will be deported in the morning to an unknown destination

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Wiesel calls the second ghetto "an open tomb."  This metaphor is used to foreshadow what theme?

• silence
• death
• suffering
• None of the above

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Where were Elie and his family sent before being deported?

• The synogague
• A smaller ghetto
• To the basement of a neighbor's house
• None of the above

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How old is Elie when the story begins?

• 11

• 13

• 16

• 12

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The term anti-semitism refers to:

• hatred of minorities
• hatred of Jews
• none of the above
• hatred of the disabled

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