Night Chapter 2 Quiz

Describe Elie Wiesel, the author of Night.

• A Jewish politician whose parents and grandparents survived the holocaust.

• A historian with a keen interest in the holocaust who writes about the Jewish experience.

• A holocaust survivor, who writes about being a prisoner at the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps.

• An American author who writes historical fiction about the holocaust to educate others.

Describe the conditions on the train (at the end of the chapter).

• The Jews sit in a dirty train that breaks down and stops moving.

• The Jews are escorted to an old train with missing windows.

• The Jews are packed in cattle trains with no room to move around.

• The Jews each have their own seat in the train but can't talk to each other.

What was foreshadowed by Madame Schacter’s nightmare?

• There will be a fire that reawakens hope in the Jews.

• There will be a hero who saves the Jews.

• There will be a flood and the Jews will drown.

• There will be fire and the Jews will burn.

What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schacter?

• Hit her, gag her and tie her up.

• Distract her with songs.

• Threaten to push her off the train.

• Alert the soldiers to punish her.

Where did the train finally stop?

• At the next train station

• In the middle of the woods

• Berlin, the capital of Germany

• Auschwitz, a concentration camp.