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Year 10 T1 Night by Eli Weisel

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what country does Eli Wiesel's account commence?

a)

Hungary

b)

Sighet

c)

Czechoslovakia

d)

Germany

2.

Why was Moshe the Beadle not successful in his mission?

4 lines
3.

What is a Judenrat?

4 lines
4.

Who is beaten on the cattle car after a horrific vision?

(a)  

5.

'Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.' Who says this?

a)

Tzipora

b)

Elimelech

c)

Hilda

d)

Eliezer

6.

As revealed in Auschwitz - why is the book called Night?

4 lines
7.

Who does Weisel insinuate is really hung from the gallows?

a)

A boy

b)

G-d

c)

His father

d)

Jesus

8.

Why does Eliezer not feel comfortable observing Rosh Hashanah in Monowitz?

4 lines
9.

During the death marches, (a)   is abandoned by his son.

10.

How does the narrative conclude?

a)

Liberation by the US Army

b)

The camp is blown up by the Resistance

c)

Liberation by the Red Army

d)

Eliezer dies

11.

How does Eliezer react to his father's fate?

4 lines
12.

Explain the importance of reading this account by Elie Wiesel.

4 lines
13.

The narrator is religious at the outset.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Moshe the Beadle is a specialist in...

a)

Mussar

b)

Chassidut

c)

Talmud

d)

Kabbalah

15.

What is the narrator's central motivation during the majority of the narrative?

a)

To find G-d

b)

To help his father

c)

To ask the right questions

d)

To escape Sighet

16.

What part of Eliezer's body undergoes an operation?

a)

Head

b)

Foot

c)

Arm

d)

Shoulder

17.

What tactic did Eliezer consider to 'escape' the concentration camp?

a)

Touching the electric fence

b)

Digging under the barracks

c)

Assaulting an SS Officer

d)

Starvation

18.

What is a kapo?

4 lines
19.

On what day is Sighet liquidated?

a)

22nd September, 1939

b)

Saturday

c)

Sunday

d)

Wednesday

20.

What prayer can be considered a motif (recurring idea) in Night?

a)

Shalom Aleichem

b)

Zog Nit Keyn Mol

c)

Mir Veln Zey Iberlebn

d)

Kaddish