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NIGHT, Chapters 1-3

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Elie want to study at the beginning of the story?

a)

calculus

b)

cabbala

c)

Catholicism

d)

calligraphy

2.

Who helped Elie with his studies?

a)

his father

b)

Moche

c)

the Rabbi

d)

his mother

3.

Why did the people of Sighet NOT believe Moche's stories?

a)

They thought he was crazy and wanted pity.

b)

He was known to pretend to be German.

c)

He had been convicted of crimes before.

d)

He had never been seen outside his house.

4.

Moche's stories of what was happening to Jews in other towns is an example of ---

a)

insanity

b)

second person point of view

c)

simile

d)

foreshadowing

5.

The Jews of Sighet are deported and forced to get into ---.

a)

trucks

b)

cattle wagons

c)

horse-drawn carriages

d)

trouble

6.

Madame Schachter's visions of fire are an example of what literary device?

a)

foreshadowing

b)

irony

c)

flashback

d)

personification

7.

The people are taken to --- where they actually can see flames in the darkness.

a)

Sighet

b)

Germany

c)

Auschwitz

d)

Berlin

8.

The German phrase at the entrance to Auschwitz ("Arbeit macht frei") means ---.

a)

"Work sets you free"

b)

"Death is freedom"

c)

"You will never be free"

d)

"Germany is free"

9.

One of the prisoners tells Elie to say he is --- instead of 14.

a)

20

b)

10

c)

18

d)

12

10.

What do the men recite as they are approaching the crematory?

a)

famous speeches

b)

the cabbala

c)

the Kaddish (prayer for the dead)

d)

the Lord's Prayer

11.

Why does Elie give his occupation as "farmer" rather than "student"?

a)

The Germans were not educated and would get angry.

b)

He had a better chance of surviving if the Germans thought he could work.

c)

He had always wanted to be a farmer.

12.

The guards tell the prisoners that "the faster you run, the sooner ---"

a)

you will be killed

b)

you can get your food

c)

you can go to bed

d)

you will be free

13.

Where did Elie see his mother and sisters for the last time?

a)

in the ghetto

b)

upon arriving at Birkenau

c)

in Sighet

d)

on the train to Buna

14.

What is Elie's new "name" at the camp?

a)

Little Adolf

b)

MI-6

c)

A-7713

d)

AK-47

15.

In what point of view is the book Night written?

a)

first person

b)

second person

c)

third person limited

d)

third person omniscient