from Night by Elie Wiesel

What is the autor's purpose of the memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel?

• to inform

• to persuade

• to entertain

• to examine

What did Wiesel mean when he says, “The SS offered us a beautiful present for the new year?”

• The prisoners are are being fed a meal.

• The prisoners are being liberated.

• The prisoners are facing a “selection.”

• The prisoners are not required to work that day.

What did the word selection mean?

• Picked to work long hours hauling heavy stone.

• Picked for working in the kitchen.

• Picked for the crematorium.

What does the term Memoir mean?

• An author’s writing style used to determine author’s purpose.

• A form of autobiographical writing in which a writer   shares his or her personal experiences and observations of significant events or people.

• The author’s attitude toward his reader or subject. It is created by the author’s choice of words and examples.

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work outside of the text.

What does the term Rhetoric mean?

• An author’s writing style used to determine author’s purpose.

• A form of autobiographical writing in which a writer   shares his or her personal experiences and observations of significant events or people.

• The author’s attitude toward his reader or subject. It is created by the author’s choice of words and examples.

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work outside of the text.

What does the term Tone mean?

• An author’s writing style used to determine author’s purpose.

• A form of autobiographical writing in which a writer   shares his or her personal experiences and observations of significant events or people.

• The author’s attitude toward his reader or subject. It is created by the author’s choice of words and examples.

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work outside of the text.

What does the term Allusion mean?

• An author’s writing style used to determine author’s purpose.

• A form of autobiographical writing in which a writer   shares his or her personal experiences and observations of significant events or people.

• The author’s attitude toward his reader or subject. It is created by the author’s choice of words and examples.

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work outside of the text.

At the beginning of the story, was Elie and his father in the same block?

• yes

• no

What tone do the word slaughterhouses and the phrase factories of death (lines 39–40) create?

• despair, horror, fear

• hope, pleasure, content

• glee, joyfulness, excitement

What was Elie's inheritance from his father?

• a fork and a knife

• a spoon and a bowl

• a bowl and a knife

• a spoon and a knife