Night Test

What town do Elie and his family come from?

• a) Budapest

• c) Sighet

• b) Gleiwitz

• d) Warsaw

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

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

• c) teach cabbala to the young

• d) create a resistance movement

• b) find his faith in Elie

On what day are Elie and his family deported from the ghetto?

• a) Christmas Day

• c) on the Sabbath

• b) Yom Kippur

• d) on the seventh day of Passover

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

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

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

Why does Akiba Drumer decide to die?

• a) he is in too much physical pain

• b) he has lost his faith in God

• c) he is too old and lonely

• d he is sick anyway

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

What does Elie pray to God that he will never do?

• a) abandon his father

• b) die in the concentration camps

• c) stop praying

• d) rise up and seek vengeance

After they arrive at Gleiwitz, what does Elie hear in the middle of the night?

• a) screaming of children

• b) Juliek playing his violin

• c) moans of the injured

• d) whispers from the dead in his dreams