Night by Elie Wiesel - Review

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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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.

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.

Wiesel's neighbor in the hospital says, "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else." Why does he feel this way?

• He is a Nazi spy who hates the Jews.

• He is crazy and has lost his mind.

• He isn't Jewish and believes Hitler will help him.

• He is a Jew and says Hitler has kept all his promises to the Jews, but nobody else has.

At the end of the chapter 5, Eliezer and his father could have stayed in camp but choose to leave. What would have happened to them if they had stayed?

• They would have been killed in a Russian bombing.
• They never find out what would have happened.
• They would have been set free by the Russian army.
• The Nazis would have killed them.

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The fires that Madame Schachter saw were meant to prepare the reader for...

• Eliezer's burning fever when he hurt his foot
• The bombing of Auschwitz by the Russians
• The burning of people at the concentration camp
• The terrible drought destroying the farmland

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No one believed _________ when he told about his narrow escape from death at the hands of the Nazis.

• Joseph Mengele
• Moishe the Beadle
• Shlomo Wiesel
• Stein

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What was Elie told to lie about?

• His birthday
• His age
• His siblings 
• His height

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What is the goal of the dentist in the camp?

• Make sure the prisoners are healthy in order to work
• Remove their gold crowns
• Pull any teeth that have cavities

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How did the Jews of Sighet react to Moishe’s miraculous escape/experience? 

• They thought he had gone mad and did not listen to him.
• His escape worried them and they listened to his warnings.
• Moishe was never actually expelled from Sighet

• There is no character named Moishe

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