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Night Chapter 1-3

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In Chapter 1, who tries to warn the Jews in Sighet about the German's murdering Jews?

a)

A local school master

b)

A Rabbi

c)

Elie's Father

d)

Moshe The Beadle

e)

A Hungarian Cop

2.

Why are the Jewish citizens of Sighet not concerned when the German soldiers first occupy their town?

a)

They feel the war will soon be over

b)

United Nations will protect them

c)

They have an escape plan

d)

The Germans they encounter are polite.

3.

Which of the following was NOT a detail from description of Moishe's stories from when he was deported to Galicia

a)

He described babies being used as target practice

b)

He describes people digging their own graves

c)

He describes his wife's death

d)

He describes faking his own death in order to escape

e)

He describes a man begging to die before his children are killed in front of him.

4.

What does Madame Schacter says she sees during the train ride?

a)

Dead children

b)

Gas Chambers

c)

Visions of the future

d)

Fire

5.

Since Madame Schacter's cries ended up being true, her hallucinations are an example of:

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Foreshadowing

e)

Plot

6.

What do Elie and his family see when they arrive at the camp?

a)

Nothing but darkness

b)

Flames rising from a chimney

c)

Their loved ones who were taken before

d)

Piles of blankets and shoes

e)

Jews in the gas chambers

7.

"You'll be shot like dogs!" is WHAT type of figurative language?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

e)

Idiom

8.

How is it that Elie and his father survive the FIRST selection when they get off the train?

a)

They hide

b)

They lie about their ages

c)

They pretend that they are sick

d)

They bribe a guard

e)

There is mud to cover their shoes.

9.

In chapter 3, what does Akiba Drumer say is the reason for why the men are experiencing such brutality?

a)

God is testing them

b)

Germans despise the Jews

c)

They are Jewish

d)

They are males

e)

They must have done something to deserve this fate.

10.

What choice does each man have at Auschwitz?

a)

Women or children

b)

food or water

c)

Work or Die

d)

Be shot or Burned

e)

Comply or be assimilated

11.

At the end of Chapter 3, to what new camp do Elie and his father go?

a)

Auschwitz

b)

Birkenau

c)

Buna

d)

Burma

e)

Poland

12.

Why do the young Jewish men with knives not attack the SS?

a)

They do not know how to use weapons

b)

They know the knives are not sharp enough

c)

They decide to have faith in God instead.

d)

They are waiting for the right time

e)

They did attack them, but were taken down.

13.

Which notorious SS officer did they meet at the concentration camp?

a)

They met Hitler himself

b)

They met Eichman

c)

They met General Kolomaye

d)

They met Dr. Mengele

14.

The people were reciting the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, for themselves

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Elie beat up the gypsy who struck his father?

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Many of the people believed Moshe's story and prepared to leave Sighet?

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Elie Wiesel said he began to hate them because they were his and his community's first oppressors. Who were they?

a)

the Gestapo Officers

b)

The Hungarian Police

c)

The Members of the Jewish Council

d)

Their non-Jewish Neighbors

18.

A-7713 represents

a)

Elie's father

b)

Elie

c)

Moshe the Beadle

19.

What was the setting and the year for the first section of the book?

a)

1935-1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia

b)

1950-1952 in Palestine and Jerusalem

c)

1910-1915 in Berlin, Germany

d)

1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvania

20.

Yiddish is spoken by Jews and descendants of Jews of central and eastern European origin

a)

True

b)

False

21.

What major world event is happening during this time period?

a)

World War I

b)

Civil Rights Movement

c)

The Cold War

d)

The Vietnam War

e)

World War II

22.

A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. This is called?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Fascism

c)

Socialism

d)

Zionism

23.

_______________ is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

a)

Allusion

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Diction

d)

Allegory

24.

An intense and irrational dislike of people from other countries

a)

Xenophobia

b)

Racism

c)

Anti-hostility

d)

Antisemitism

25.

What is one theme present within the piece?

a)

Indifference

b)

Religion

c)

Survival

d)

Struggle to Maintain Faith

e)

All of the above

26.

The job of the Sonder-Kommando is to put the bodies into the crematory

a)

True

b)

False

27.
Who is the first character introduced in Night?
a)
Elie's mother
b)
Moshe the Beadle
c)
Adolf Hitler
d)
Elie Wiesel