WorksheetsNight Book Review
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 41mins
What town do Elie and his family come from?
Budapest
Gleiwitz
Sighet
Warsaw
Upon his return to Sighet, what does Moishe the Beadle attempt to do?
a) warn the jews about what will happen to them.
b) find his faith in Elie
c) teach cabbala to the young
d) create a resistance movement
On what day are Elie and his family deported from the ghetto?
Christmas Day
Yom Kippur
on the sabbath
7th day of Passover
On the train to Auschwitz, what does Mrs. Schächter have visions of?
burning pits of fire
the Angel of Death
the death head of Auschwitz
God
What is the Kaddish?
a dance of worship to God
a special food served at Passover
an ancient language of the caballa
Jewish prayer for the dead
With what instrument is Elie’s gold crown removed?
a) a rusty fork
b) Franek’s bare hands
c) a scalpel
d) a rusty spoon
Why does Akiba Drumer decide to die?
He is in too much physical pain
he has lost his faith in God
he is too old and lonely
he is sick anyway
Why does Elie end up having to have an operation?
a) his foot swells
b) his tooth is infected
c) he is in pain from his appendix
d) his arm swells
What does Elie pray to God that he will never do?
a) abandon his father as Rabbi Eliahu did
b) die in the concentration camps
c) stop praying
d) rise up and seek vengeance
After they arrive at Gleiwitz, what does Elie hear in the middle of the night?
a) screaming of children
b) Juliek playing his violin
c) moans of the injured
d) whispers from the dead in his dreams
Why is the hanging of the pipel so emotional for the prisoners?
a) the prisoners have already witnessed another hanging
b) they know there would be no soup that day
c) they think he is a symbol for Jesus
d) the pipel is so young and angelic looking
What is Elie’s “inheritance” from his father?
a) a bag of gold
b) his jacket
c) a rusty can and knife
d) a spoon and knife
What stares back at Elie at the end of the book?
a) the SS soldiers
b) a vision of his mother and father
c) the American liberators
d) a corpse
What is the slogan for Auschwitz?
a) “Live Free or Die”
b) “Live Long and Prosper”
c) “Work is Liberty”
d) “Live for Germany”
Why don’t Elie’s new shoes get taken away at Buna?
a) they are ugly
b) they are covered in mud
c) they are not needed
d) he barters his gold crown
Matching: trampled to death in the run to Gleiwitz
Zalman
Mrs. Schächter
Matching: Elie’s sister who dies at Auschwitz
Idek
Tzipora
Matching: narrator of the novel
Elie Wiesel
Shlomo Wiesel
Matching: held in great esteem by the Jews of Sighet
Zalman
Shlomo Wiesel
decides who will die at selections at Auschwitz
Dr. Josef Mengele
Juliek
Matching: loses her mind as she envisions fire
Mrs. Schächter
Tzipora
Matching: tries to warn the Jews of Sighet
Dr. Josef Mengele
Moishe the Beadle
Matching: plays Beethoven to the dead and dying
Zalman
Juliek
Matching: loses his faith in God and chooses selection
Akiba Drumer
Idek
Matching: Kapo who beats Elie and his father
Shlomo Wiesel
Idek
Character Matching: "Violin"
Dr. Mengele
Elie
Shlomo
Juliek
Idek
Character Matching: "Gold crown"
Dr. Mengele
Elie
Shlomo
Juliek
Idek
Character Matching: " Spoon and knife"
Dr. Mengele
Elie
Shlomo
Juliek
Idek
Character Matching: "Monocle"
Dr. Mengele
Elie
Shlomo
Juliek
Idek
Character Matching: "Whip"
Dr. Mengele
Elie
Shlomo
Juliek
Idek
Literary Devices Matching:
“How I sympathized with Job!”
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism
Allusion
Theme
Literary Devices Matching:
“barbed wire"
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism
Allusion
Theme
Literary Devices Matching:
“ It is a warning to the living that atrocities like the Holocaust can
happen and will happen again if we are not vigilant."
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism
Allusion
Theme
Literary Devices Matching:
“I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only
one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism
Allusion
Theme
Literary Devices Matching:
“I’ve got a premonition of evil,” said my mother."
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism
Allusion
Theme
Location Matching: place of anti-Semitic activity
Sighet
Budapest
Buna
Buchenwald
Auschwitz
Location Matching: place where Elie’s mother and sister die
Sighet
Budapest
Buna
Buchenwald
Auschwitz
Location Matching: has Idek as his Kapo
Sighet
Budapest
Buna
Buchenwald
Auschwitz
Location Matching: home of Elie
Sighet
Budapest
Buna
Buchenwald
Auschwitz
Location Matching: place where Elie’s father died
Sighet
Budapest
Buna
Buchenwald
Auschwitz
What town do Elie and his family come from?
a) Budapest
b) Gleiwitz
c) Sighet
d)Warsaw
