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Night - Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who saved Elie from being strangled by another prisoner on the cattle car in Chapter 7 of Night?

a)

Elie's dad

b)

Meir Katz

c)

Lebron James

d)

Dr. Mengele

2.

In Chapter 7 of Night, what was the 'close call' Elie's dad managed to escape?

a)

He woke up right before being thrown out of the cattle car with other Jewish corpses.

b)

He survived an attack from his son.

c)

He ran away from Nazi officers to escape.

d)

He almost fell out of the cattle car because the door was open.

3.

Why did a Jewish prisoner kill his own father in the cattle car in Chapter 7 of Night?

a)

He killed his father over a piece of bread

b)

He killed his father because he was crazy

c)

He killed his father because someone told him that his father was an SS guard

d)

He killed his father for sleeping in his space

4.

On what date is Elie's father taken to the crematorium in chapter 8 of Night by Elie Wiesel?

a)

January 19th, 1938

b)

April 2nd, 1900

c)

January 4th, 1963

d)

January 29, 1945

5.

What does Elie's father become ill with in chapter 8 of Night by Elie Wiesel?

a)

Hypothermia

b)

Dysentery

c)

COVID 19

d)

Foot infection

6.

What does Elie feel guilt over in chapter 8 of Night by Elie Wiesel?

a)

Elie feels guilt about stealing his father's food.

b)

Elie feels guilt hurting his father.

c)

Elie feels guilt about lying to a guard.

d)

Elie feels guilt about thinking of his father as a burden.

7.

What is the name of the camp Elie and his father are relocated to in chapter 8 of Night by Elie Wiesel?

a)

They don't relocate

b)

Buna

c)

Buchenwald

d)

Auschwitz

8.

How does Eliezer nearly lose his life after the camp is liberated in Night?

a)

His train is attacked on the way back to his home in Romania.

b)

He is nearly trampled to death by other prisoners trying to get to the food.

c)

He is shot by a Nazi camp leader just before the US troops arrived.

d)

He is hospitalized with food poisoning after gorging himself on the provisions.

9.

'They think I'm mad,' he whispered, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes.' In this passage, which literary device is used to compare tears to wax?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Alliteration

10.

Which literary device is used in Night when the narrator mentions, 'Faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and even in His creation.'

a)

Irony

b)

Allusion

c)

Foreshadowing

d)

Simile

11.

Two years before Wiesel's village was evacuated, Moishe the Beadle warns Eliezer. 'He told me what had happened to him and his companions.The train with the deportees had crossed the Hungarian border and, once in Polish territory, had been taken over by the Gestapo.' Which literary device is used in this passage?

a)

Foreshadowing

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

12.

Night includes references to a crematorium, which can be defined as which one of the following?

a)

A machine used to burn the bodies of Jewish prisoners in the concentration camps

b)

A machine used to gas Jewish prisoners in the concentration camps

c)

A machine used to shock Jewish prisoners in the concentration camps

d)

A machine used to transport Jewish prisoners in the concentration camps

13.

How does Elie Wiesel's Night end, and what does this ending symbolize?

a)

Eliezer leaves Buchenwald on a stretcher looking up at the sky; this symbolizes his hope for all of humanity.

b)

Eliezer lies down next to his dead father; the corpse of his father symbolizes his own spiritual death.

c)

Eliezer looks at himself in a mirror and sees a corpse staring back at him; this symbolizes his own spiritual death, as he no longer believes in God.

d)

Eliezer looks at himself in a mirror and sees an adult, not a boy; this symbolizes his loss of innocence, as he no longer believes in God.

14.

What does night represent in this novel?

a)

A dark night

b)

rain

c)

snow

d)

hopelessness and human suffering

15.

What was the name of the evil doctor that determined who would work and who would be put in the gas chambers?

a)

Dr. Adolf Hitler

b)

Dr. Mengele

c)

Dr. Donald Trump

d)

Dr. Joseph Biden