Night -- Test Review

In his hometown of Sighet, Elie spends most of his time

• playing with friends from his synagogue

• getting into trouble at school

• studying religious teachings

• learning Hebrew

Moshe the Beadle's role in the memoir could best be described as ____

• a messenger foreshadowing things to come

• the narrator

• an example of verbal irony

• comic relief

The Holocaust involved imprisoning ____ in concentration camps.

• Jews

• Jews, Catholics, and Gypsies

• homosexuals and the mentally challenged

• all of the above

The Nazi's "final solution" was a plan to ____.

• confine Jews to ghettos

• exterminate non-Aryan people

• take over Europe

• send all Jews into exile

What, according to Elie, rules the ghetto?

• his father

• the Gestapo

• illusion

• despair

What happens to Moshe early in the memoir?

• he is killed

• he is deported to a concentration camp

• he survives deportation by pretending to be dead

• he writes Elie a letter urging him to leave for Palestine

What causes Madame Schachter to cry out?

• she sees the crematories of Auschwitz outside her window

• she is claustrophobic

• her child is taken from her

• she claims to see flames outside her window

The type of irony in which the reader knows something the characters do not know is called ___.

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• irony of situation

• extreme irony

Throughout his time in concentration camps, Elie's main goal is to ____.

• escape

• stay with his father

• continue to give thanks to God

• work hard and achieve freedom

Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz, Elie and his father walk past a ditch in which ____ are being burned.

• the bodies of dead and living people

• dead bodies

• the passports of the new arrivals

• photographs of the gas chamber