1. What town do Elie and his family come from?

• a) Budapest

• b) Gleiwitz

• c) Sighet

• d) Warsaw

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2. Upon his return to Sighet, what does Moshe the Beadle attempt to do?

• a) warn the Jews about what will happen to them

• b) find his faith in Elie

• c) teach cabbala to the young

• d) create a resistance movement

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3. On the train to Auschwitz, what does Madam Schächter have visions of?

• a) burning pits of fire

• b) the Angel of Death

• c) the death head of Auschwitz

• d) God

4. On the train to Auschwitz, Madam Schächter's visions is an example of what type of figurative language? 

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

• Allegory

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5. What is the Kaddish?

• a) a special food served at Passover

• b) an ancient language of the caballa

• c) a dance of worship to God

• d) Jewish prayer for the dead

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6. With what instrument is Elie’s gold crown removed?

• a) a rusty fork

• b) Franek’s bare hands

• c) a scalpel

• d) a rusty spoon

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7. Why does Elie end up having to have an operation?

• a) his foot swells

• b) his tooth is infected

• c) he is in pain from his appendix

• d) his arm swells

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8. What is Elie’s “inheritance” from his father?

• a) a bag of gold

• b) his jacket

• c) a rusty can and knife

• d) a spoon and knife

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9. What stares back at Elie at the end of the novel?

• a) the SS soldiers

• b) a vision of his mother and father

• c) the American liberators

• d) a corpse

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10.  “It was like a page torn from some storybook,” is an example of what?

• a) foreshadowing

• b) irony

• c) simile

• d) metaphor

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