WorksheetsNIGHT, Chapters 1-3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
What did Elie want to study at the beginning of the story?
calculus
cabbala
Catholicism
calligraphy
Who helped Elie with his studies?
his father
Moche
the Rabbi
his mother
Why did the people of Sighet NOT believe Moche's stories?
They thought he was crazy and wanted pity.
He was known to pretend to be German.
He had been convicted of crimes before.
He had never been seen outside his house.
Moche's stories of what was happening to Jews in other towns is an example of ---
insanity
second person point of view
simile
foreshadowing
The Jews of Sighet are deported and forced to get into ---.
trucks
cattle wagons
horse-drawn carriages
trouble
Madame Schachter's visions of fire are an example of what literary device?
foreshadowing
irony
flashback
personification
The people are taken to --- where they actually can see flames in the darkness.
Sighet
Germany
Auschwitz
Berlin
The German phrase at the entrance to Auschwitz ("Arbeit macht frei") means ---.
"Work sets you free"
"Death is freedom"
"You will never be free"
"Germany is free"
One of the prisoners tells Elie to say he is --- instead of 14.
20
10
18
12
What do the men recite as they are approaching the crematory?
famous speeches
the cabbala
the Kaddish (prayer for the dead)
the Lord's Prayer
Why does Elie give his occupation as "farmer" rather than "student"?
The Germans were not educated and would get angry.
He had a better chance of surviving if the Germans thought he could work.
He had always wanted to be a farmer.
The guards tell the prisoners that "the faster you run, the sooner ---"
you will be killed
you can get your food
you can go to bed
you will be free
Where did Elie see his mother and sisters for the last time?
in the ghetto
upon arriving at Birkenau
in Sighet
on the train to Buna
What is Elie's new "name" at the camp?
Little Adolf
MI-6
A-7713
AK-47
In what point of view is the book Night written?
first person
second person
third person limited
third person omniscient
