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Night Chapters 1-7

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who is the author of Night?
a)
Elle Golding
b)
Elie Wiesel
c)
Moshe the Beadle
d)
Marion Blumenthal-Lazan
2.
Where is Elie from originally?
a)
Slovakia
b)
Buna
c)
Sighet
d)
Transylvania
3.
Who is Elie's mentor at the beginning of the memoir?
a)
Mengele
b)
Franek
c)
Idek
d)
Moshe the Beadle
4.
Madame Schachter's claims that she sees flames from the cattle car are an example of what literary device?
a)
Simile
b)
Forecasting
c)
Foreshadowing
d)
Imagery
5.
What happens to Elie's mother and sister?
a)
They manage to go into hiding and escape.
b)
They die, presumably in the gas chambers.
c)
Elie's mother dies, but his sister lives.
d)
Elie's sister dies, but his mother lives.
6.
Elie was sent to all of the following camps EXCEPT...?
a)
Theresienstadt
b)
Auschwitz
c)
Buna
d)
Buchenwald
7.
How does Franek convince Elie to give up his gold crown on his tooth?
a)
Franek beats Elie's father because he knows that will hurt Elie.
b)
Franek beats Elie because he knows he'll break from the pain.
c)
Franek threatens to send Elie's father to another camp.
d)
Franek threatens to send Elie to another camp, away from his father.
8.
How is Elie's gold crown removed?
a)
With pliers
b)
Through surgery
c)
With a rusty spoon
d)
None of the above
9.
For what reason are prisoners hanged, rather than being shot or gassed?
a)
Sabotaging a building
b)
Stealing food
c)
Planning a revolt
d)
All of the above
10.
Why are the hangings public deaths instead of behind closed doors?
a)
The Nazis want Jews to be able to pay their respects.
b)
The Nazis want to remind the Jews of the consequences of negative behavior.
c)
The Jews wish to mourn the prisoners' deaths.
d)
Nazi officials didn't believe people were hanged unless it was done publicly.
11.
Why doesn't Elie fast during Yom Kippur?
a)
His father told him not to.
b)
He views it as an act of rebellion against God.
c)
The guards make the prisoners eat.
d)
Options 1 and 2
12.
How does Elie's father manage to avoid the gas chambers when he's chosen during selection in Chapter 5?
a)
He bribes a guard with food.
b)
He bribes a guard with money.
c)
He passes the second selection screening.
d)
He manages to sneak out of the barrack and into another one.
13.
What does Elie's father give Elie when he thinks he's going to die?
a)
A knife and spoon
b)
His shoes and a spoon
c)
His bowl and a spoon
d)
His shoes and a bowl
14.
On what days do the prisoners get time off?
a)
Sundays
b)
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
c)
Christmas and New Year's Day
d)
None of the above
15.
"Death wrapped around me until I was stifled" (82) is an example of which literary element?
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Foreshadowing
d)
Personification
16.
What happened to Rabbi Eliahou's son?
a)
He ran ahead when he saw Rabbi Eliahou fading during the death march.
b)
He died from dysentery.
c)
He died playing his violin.
d)
He got in a fight over a piece of bread and died.
17.
What allows Elie's father to live during the selection process while they're on the Death March?
a)
Elie bribes a guard to let his father go by providing him with Elie's ration of food.
b)
Elie bribes a guard to let his father go by offering his shoes.
c)
Elie runs over after his father and it creates confusion, allowing them both to escape to the right.
d)
He convinces a more sympathetic guard to let him live so he can help Elie.
18.
What is thrown into the wagon that causes such chaos among the prisoners?
a)
A potato
b)
A piece of bread
c)
A turnip
d)
All of the above
19.
What is the outcome of the bread being thrown into the wagon?
a)
More people throw bread into the wagon and the prisoners are able to eat.
b)
The prisoners become so rowdy that the Nazis shoot ten of them.
c)
A father is killed by his son and then the son ends up killed, too.
d)
Two children strangle each other.
20.
Out of the one hundred prisoners who were in the open cattle car, how many are alive when they arrive at Buchenwald?
a)
Thirty-three
b)
Twelve
c)
Twenty-one
d)
Forty-two
21.

What did the SS Officers threaten to do to the ones who couldn't keep up with the marching/running?

a)

That they would kill them

b)

That they would let them starve

c)

That they would kill their families

d)

That they would shoot them in the knee

22.

What happens to Elie's friend, Zalman?

a)

He is shot

b)

He is trampled by the other prisoners

c)

He has a seizure

d)

He passes out in the snow and is left there to die

23.

After running for hours, where do Elie and his father go to rest (Chapter 6)?

a)

A ditch, covered in moss

b)

A broken down truck's bed

c)

Beside a n nearly frozen tree

d)

In an abandoned shed

24.

Why did Shlomo wake Elie up (Chapter 6)?

a)

He said it was dangerous to sleep in the snow

b)

He thought he was dead

c)

He thought they had the chance to escape

d)

He wanted to move to a different location

25.

What camp do they finally reach in Chapter 6?

a)

Buna

b)

Treblenka

c)

Gleiwitz

d)

Buchenwald

26.

What are the conditions like at the camp in Chapter 6?

a)

Falling apart

b)

Extremely crowded

c)

Overgrown with decaying bodies

d)

Overbearingly loud

27.

What is Juliek worried about most in Chapter 6?

a)

Being killed in his sleep

b)

Elie losing his father

c)

His violin being smashed

d)

None of the above

28.

What does Elie wake up to in Chapter 6?

a)

Juliek's dead body

b)

His father being beaten

c)

SS guards whipping prisoners

d)

A man weeping beside him

29.

How long do they stay at the camp without food and water in Chapter 6?

a)

2 days

b)

3 days

c)

4 days

d)

1 week

30.

What does Elie do when his father is put on the "bad" side during selection?

a)

Distracts the SS officers while Shlomo returns to the other side

b)

Weeps, thinking his father is going to die

c)

Holds Shlomo and reassures him that everything is okay

d)

Runs over there and brings him to the other side

31.

How many people were on each cattle train to Buchenwald?

a)

12

b)

20

c)

88

d)

100

32.

During the train ride, what happens?

a)

Two prisoners try to escape, resulting in them being shot at

b)

Corpses are thrown off the train

c)

The train is stocked with food, so the prisoners get to eat well

d)

A prisoner gets in a fight with an SS officer

33.

How does Elie convince prisoners not to throw Elie's father off the train (Chapter 7)?

a)

By bribing them with bread

b)

He told them that if they did, he would push them out

c)

He said that God was watching

d)

He convinced them that his father was alive

34.

What is Elie horrified by during the train ride?

a)

People killing each other over a piece of bread

b)

Prisoners pick-pocketing corpses for anything they could find

c)

A prisoner commiting suicide by jumping out of the train

d)

An SS officer taunting the prisoners with food

35.

What happens to Elie one night on the train ride?

a)

Elie passes out from not eating

b)

Elie gets hypothermia

c)

A stranger attempts to strangle him

d)

A prisoner takes Elie's bread and Shlomo fights him

36.

Why does everyone begin to weep in Chapter 7?

a)

Because it gets dangerously cold

b)

Because Meir Katz begins to cry

c)

Because everyone begins to die from hypothermia

d)

Because they realized that they weren't going to come out of this alive

37.

Out of 100 prisoners, how many make it off the train at Buchenwald?

a)

12

b)

25

c)

64

d)

88

38.

What was the weather like while the men were on the train?

a)

Elie doesn't know; there were no windows on the train

b)

It was a warm, spring day

c)

There was heavy rainfall

d)

It was snowy

39.
What happened when a German workman threw a piece of bread  into the wagon?
a)
Men were too stunned to move
b)
Men hurled themselves over each other to get to the bread
c)
Nothing- the men were too malnourished to even reach for the bread
d)
This is a trick question. A German workman never threw bread into the wagon. He threw a bottle of water. 
40.
What did Elie witness between the father and son?
a)
He saw the father refuse to give his son food.
b)
The father killed the son to take his bread.
c)
The son killed the father for the bread.
d)
The father gave up his bread to his son.