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Night Unit Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Elie Wiesel grew up in Germany

a)

True

b)

False

2.

In his early life, Elie Wiesel was not very religious

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Moishe the Beadle guided Elie in his studies of the Kabbalah.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Moishe the Beadle barely escaped death at the hands of the Gestapo.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The Jews of Sighet prepared to escape when Moishe the Beadle described what had happened. 

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Who found the Kabbalah teacher for Elie?

a)

Shlomo

b)

Moishe the Beadle

c)

Elie, himself

d)

His rabbi

7.

Which of the following was NOT a detail from Moishe’s stories from when he was taken?

a)

people had to dig their own graves

b)

he faked his own death in order to escape

c)

babies were used as target practice

d)

how his wife took three days to die

8.

What news did Mr. Wiesel return with after his late-night meeting of the council?

a)

They are going to be sent to Galicia.

b)

They are going to work in the brick factories.

c)

They are going to Auschwitz.

d)

They are going to be deported, destination unknown.

9.

What were the Jews required by the Nazis to do with their valuables?

a)

Give them to the Nazis.

b)

Keep them in storage.

c)

Hide them.

d)

Deposit them at the concentration camps for safekeeping until after the war.

10.

What were Elie’s feelings toward God as the war dragged on?

a)

He prayed daily to God for mercy and safety.

b)

He was angry at God and questioned how he could allow such terrible things to happen.

c)

He no longer believed God was real.

d)

He wished God would just let him die

11.

At Buna, why didn’t the Jewish people play Beethoven’s music?

a)

Germans laughed when the Jews played that music.

b)

The Germans did not allow the Jews to play German music.

c)

The Jews did not want to play German music.

d)

Beethoven’s music was boring.

12.

What did the “selection” process determine?

a)

Who would march to a new camp and who would stay.

b)

Who would be physical laborers and who would do less physical work.

c)

Who would live and who would be sent to the gas chamber.

d)

Who would be fed and who would go hungry.

13.

What infamous person did Elie encounter at Auschwitz?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Dr. Mengele

c)

Moishe the Beadle

d)

Beethoven

14.

Franek, the Polish foreman, robbed Eliezer for his ___________________.

a)

Gold crown

b)

Shoes

c)

Belt

d)

Ration of bread

15.

The Jewish New Year is called

a)

Rosh Hashanah

b)

Shavuot

c)

Passover

d)

Yom Kippur

16.

While in camp, on what did Eliezer have an operation?

a)

Teeth

b)

Knee

c)

Ankle

d)

Foot

17.

What happened to the young Pipel who refused to talk about the large quantity of weapons uncovered?

a)

He was hanged

b)

He was gassed

c)

He was whipped

d)

He was beaten

18.

Passover is...

a)

The camp Elie and his father were transferred to

b)

The prayer for the dead

c)

A Jewish holiday

d)

Where Elie grew up

19.

A-7713 is...

a)

Elie's home address

b)

Elie's identification number

c)

The number of patients Dr. Mengele saw

d)

Elie's block number

20.

The author of Night is

a)

John Steinbeck

b)

Elie Wiesel

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Daniel Keyes

21.

Night is a ___________. (Genre)

a)

Complete autobiography

b)

Biography

c)

Memoir

d)

Fiction novel

22.

What was the setting for the first section of Night?

a)

Prague, Czechoslovakia

b)

Palestine and Jerusalem

c)

Berlin, Germany

d)

Sighet, Transylvania

23.

Moishe the Beadle warns the Sighet Jews that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives, but Elie and the other villagers

a)

believe that he is trying to scare them

b)

conclude that he had lost his mind

c)

simply ignore him

d)

do not trust the authenticity of his eyewitness account

24.

What does a German decree require Jews to wear to identify themselves?

a)

a yellow cloth star, to symbolize the Star of David

b)

badly fitting prison clothes

c)

the traditional Jewish yarmulke

d)

phylacteries

25.

What did Mrs.Schachter see in her vision?

a)

she saw large open graves full of children

b)

she saw a fire – a furnace with huge flames

c)

she saw row after row of empty houses

d)

she saw the face of Hitler laughing at the entire world

26.

Which camp were Elie and his family taken to first?

a)

Buna

b)

Gleiwitz

c)

Buchenwald

d)

Auschwitz

27.

How old does Eliezer tell Dr. Mengele he is when he arrives at Birkenau?

a)

18

b)

14

c)

12

d)

20

28.

What was the main food staple during Elie’s stay in the concentration camps?

a)

coffee and beans

b)

rice and water

c)

bread and soup

d)

potatoes and bread

29.

What ironic words are inscribed on the doors of Auschwitz?

a)

“No danger here!”

b)

“Work is honorable!”

c)

“Death will not come!”

d)

"Work will set you free!"

30.

How do the SS guards execute prisoners who have committed crimes? 
 

a)

Hanging 
 

b)

Firing squad

c)

Beheading

d)

Gas chamber

31.

According to Elie, what was his pitiful inheritance?

a)

his lost boyhood in Sighet

b)

memories of his father

c)

a knife and spoon

d)

a gold medal

32.

In the dark shed among the struggling horde, what does Juliek produce the night before he dies?

a)

his violin, which had previously when smashed and broken

b)

a fragment of a Beethoven concerto

c)

stories of life before the Nazi camps

d)

the truth about their final destination

33.

What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou’s son just before the evacuation?

a)

he son was dead and the Rabbi could not admit it

b)

the son had been trying to lose his father as the men were all running

c)

the son had escaped and did not take his father

d)

the son betrayed his father to get extra bread for himself

34.

Chlomo Wiesel

a)

Survived to tell the story of the concentration camps

b)

Man who the men forgot to say the Kaddish for

c)

Eliezer’s younger sister

d)

Died at Buchenwald

35.

Juliek

a)

Played Beethoven for the dying men

b)

Tormented Elie to get the cold crown

c)

The distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau

d)

Kapo who had bouts of madness

36.

Meir Katz...

a)

Survived to tell the story of the concentration camps

b)

Survived to tell the story of the concentration camps

c)

Saved Elie’s life in the cattle car

d)

Rabbi who searched for his son

37.

Akiba Drumer

a)

The distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau

b)

Man who the men forgot to say the Kaddish for

c)

Women who had visions of the furnace fire

d)

Kapo who had bouts of madness

38.

Talmud

a)

Italian party created by Benito Mussolini

b)

Elie Wiesel’s birthplace

c)

Jewish prayer for the dead

d)

Record of Jewish laws, ethics, history and customs

39.

Hitler

a)

Notorious doctor who supervised selections

b)

German politician; sought “Aryan” racial purity

c)

A concentration camp

d)

Italian party created by Benito Mussolini

40.

Anti-Semitic

a)

Prejudice views and hostility towards Jewish people

b)

Jewish prayer for the dead

c)

Collection of mystical and ethical Jewish teachings

d)

Collection of mystical and ethical Jewish teachings

41.

Kabbalah

a)

Jewish prayer for the dead

b)

A concentration camp

c)

Collection of mystical and ethical Jewish teachings

d)

Record of Jewish laws, ethics, history and customs

42.

Who was America’s president during World War II and the Holocaust?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Harry S. Truman

43.

When the German soldiers came to Sighet, they appeared to be cruel and filled the

residents with fear and mistrust.

a)

True

b)

False

44.

Elie’s mother and younger sister were killed at a concentration camp.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

After his father’s death, Elie felt freedom, not sorrow.

a)

True

b)

False