Night final test practice

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.

Which would be the most important detail to include in a summary of Night?

• Elie almost lost his foot at Auschwitz.

• Elie was a Hungarian Jew who was imprisoned during the Holocaust.

• Moishe the Beadle tried to warn the Jews of Sighet.

• Dr. Mengele chose who would live and who would die at camp.

From what point of view is Night told?

• Third person

• First person

• Third person, omniscient

• Second person

Which characteristic best shows that Night is a work of nonfiction?

• It is written in paragraphs and sentences.

• It is about a time in history.

• It chronicles a real person's life.

• It has plot events that lead to a climax.

Based on the outcome of Night what inference can we make about Elie?

• He is angry and vengeful.

• He is strong and determined.

• He is weak and insolent.

• He is gentle and unchanged.

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 Elie 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.

What does the coming of the Russian Army/Red Army mean to the prisoners?

• They feel the Russians will save them.

• They feel the Russians will be more cruel than the Germans.

• They know nothing about the Russians.

• They feel indifferent about the Russians.

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.