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Night by Elie Wiesel - Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which sentence could be a main idea of "Night"?
a)
The Nazis imprisoned many European Jews, making them do harsh work and labor.
b)
Elie is destroyed by the treatment he receives in the Holocaust.
c)
The Jews were brutally treated and killed in Europe during the Holocaust.
d)
Elie overcomes the struggles of being a prisoner in the Holocaust.
2.
What does Eliezer's father leave him as an "inheritance"?
a)
He tells Eliezer where the valuables were buried in the cellar.
b)
He leaves Eliezer his gold tooth.
c)
He leaves Eliezer his copy of the Kabbala bible.
d)
He leaves Eliezer a knife and a spoon.
3.
Why does Eliezer go to the infirmary/hospital?
a)
His tooth gets infected and he gets an abscess.
b)
His foot gets infected and begins to swell.
c)
He has trouble breathing and develops a bad cough.
d)
He goes blind.
4.

Wiesel's neighbor in the hospital says, "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else." Why does he feel this way?

a)

He is a Nazi spy who hates the Jews.

b)

He is crazy and has lost his mind.

c)

He isn't Jewish and believes Hitler will help him.

d)

He is a Jew and says Hitler has kept all his promises to the Jews, but nobody else has.

5.
At the end of the chapter 5, Eliezer and his father could have stayed in camp but choose to leave. What would have happened to them if they had stayed?
a)
They would have been killed in a Russian bombing.
b)
They never find out what would have happened.
c)
They would have been set free by the Russian army.
d)
The Nazis would have killed them.
6.
The fires that Madame Schachter saw were meant to prepare the reader for...
a)
Eliezer's burning fever when he hurt his foot
b)
The bombing of Auschwitz by the Russians
c)
The burning of people at the concentration camp
d)
The terrible drought destroying the farmland
7.
No one believed _________ when he told about his narrow escape from death at the hands of the Nazis.
a)
Joseph Mengele
b)
Moishe the Beadle
c)
Shlomo Wiesel
d)
Stein
8.
What was Elie told to lie about?
a)
His birthday
b)
His age
c)
His siblings 
d)
His height
9.
What is the goal of the dentist in the camp?
a)
Make sure the prisoners are healthy in order to work
b)
Remove their gold crowns
c)
Pull any teeth that have cavities
10.

How did the Jews of Sighet react to Moishe’s miraculous escape/experience? 

a)
They thought he had gone mad and did not listen to him.
b)
His escape worried them and they listened to his warnings.
c)

Moishe was never actually expelled from Sighet

d)

There is no character named Moishe

11.
For whom is Rabbi Eliahou searching for near the end of the book? 
a)
Elie
b)
Mr. Wiesel
c)
His son
d)
His wife
12.

During the march, what did Elie and the other passengers eat instead of bread? 

a)
Shnitzel
b)
Snow
c)
They ate nothing
d)

Soup

13.

How does Elie feel when his father finally passes away? 

a)

Devastated

b)

Hopeful

c)

Relieved

d)

Angry

14.

What causes Elie's father to die?

a)

Hypothermia

b)

Dysentery

c)

Gas chamber

d)

He survived the death camp

15.
What is Elie promised in exchange for his shoes?
a)
A loaf of bread
b)
His gold crown back
c)
To be with his father
16.
What sight shakes Elie’s faith more than any other?
a)
The sight of his father being beaten
b)

The hanging of the young boy and burning of babies

c)
Seeing Madame Shachter scream about fire in the cattle car
d)
Seeing starved prisoners upon first arriving at Auschwitz
17.
During the Death March, why does Mr. Wiesel warn Elie not to go to sleep in the snow?
a)
He will be left behind
b)
He might not wake up
c)
He will be beaten
d)
He will be robbed of his shoes
18.

When Elie looks at himself in a mirror for the first time after Auschwitz, what does he see staring back at him?

a)
a corpse
b)
a child
c)
a soldier
d)

a grown man

19.
What does Juliek spend his last hours on earth doing?
a)
running with a limp
b)
begging for mercy
c)
playing the violin 
20.

According to one of the older men, who was the only being to keep their promises to the Jews?

a)
Franek
b)
Hitler
c)
Juliek
d)

God

21.

Why does Elie try so desperately to wake his father up while they are on the train?

a)

His father is about to be thrown off the train because they think he's dead

b)
He is afraid he will be left behind
c)
He needs his father to console him
d)
He is afraid he will lose his father's protection
22.

Elie finds out his father is dead when...

a)

he sees his dead body lying in his bed

b)

he hears it from the doctor

c)

he sees a new person where his father use to sleep

d)

he sits by his bedside as he passes away

23.

What did Elie Wiesel want to study early in the book?

a)

beadle

b)

geometry

c)

Kabbalah

d)

Russian

24.
Madame Schachter's visions about fire are an example of what?
a)
metaphor
b)
irony
c)
simile
d)
foreshadowing
25.
What does ARBEIT MACHT FREI mean on the gate of Auschwitz?
a)
Hate for all 
b)
Work makes you free
c)
No Jews allowed
d)
Consequences follow actions