Night - Elie Wiesel Background (CNN)

What age was Elie Wiesel taking from his home?

• 13

• 18

• 15

• 20

Did Elie Wiesel and his family understand what was happening before they were loaded into a cattle car?

• no

• yes

Why would 15-year-old Elie Wiesel say he was 18 when he arrived at Auschwitz?

• He would get to leave, the camp was only for children.

• 18 year olds could get extra food.

• 18 year olds would get put to work, not sent to the gas chambers.

Wiesel is taken to Buchenwald.

• True

• False

When did Wiesel's father die?

• He did not die he survived.

• He died a few weeks before the Americans liberated the camp.

• He died in Auschwitz.

What was Wiesel's lament when he visited the camp with President Obama?

• There was no grave to visit for his father.

• He couldn't remember his father.

• His mother was not with him.

• He wished he could be with a different president.

Wiesel became a journalist.

• True

• False

He began to write about his torment at Auschwitz immediately.

• False

• True

Why did Wiesel say he is involved in things across the ocean and the continents?

• Because he is from traumatized generation, haunted by indifference.

• Because so many people helped the Jews during the WW11. 

What is Wiesel's question?