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WorksheetsNight Unit Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Elie Wiesel grew up in Germany
True
False
In his early life, Elie Wiesel was not very religious
True
False
Moishe the Beadle guided Elie in his studies of the Kabbalah.
True
False
Moishe the Beadle barely escaped death at the hands of the Gestapo.
True
False
The Jews of Sighet prepared to escape when Moishe the Beadle described what had happened.
True
False
Who found the Kabbalah teacher for Elie?
Shlomo
Moishe the Beadle
Elie, himself
His rabbi
Which of the following was NOT a detail from Moishe’s stories from when he was taken?
people had to dig their own graves
he faked his own death in order to escape
babies were used as target practice
how his wife took three days to die
What news did Mr. Wiesel return with after his late-night meeting of the council?
They are going to be sent to Galicia.
They are going to work in the brick factories.
They are going to Auschwitz.
They are going to be deported, destination unknown.
What were the Jews required by the Nazis to do with their valuables?
Give them to the Nazis.
Keep them in storage.
Hide them.
Deposit them at the concentration camps for safekeeping until after the war.
What were Elie’s feelings toward God as the war dragged on?
He prayed daily to God for mercy and safety.
He was angry at God and questioned how he could allow such terrible things to happen.
He no longer believed God was real.
He wished God would just let him die
At Buna, why didn’t the Jewish people play Beethoven’s music?
Germans laughed when the Jews played that music.
The Germans did not allow the Jews to play German music.
The Jews did not want to play German music.
Beethoven’s music was boring.
What did the “selection” process determine?
Who would march to a new camp and who would stay.
Who would be physical laborers and who would do less physical work.
Who would live and who would be sent to the gas chamber.
Who would be fed and who would go hungry.
What infamous person did Elie encounter at Auschwitz?
Adolf Hitler
Dr. Mengele
Moishe the Beadle
Beethoven
Franek, the Polish foreman, robbed Eliezer for his ___________________.
Gold crown
Shoes
Belt
Ration of bread
The Jewish New Year is called
Rosh Hashanah
Shavuot
Passover
Yom Kippur
While in camp, on what did Eliezer have an operation?
Teeth
Knee
Ankle
Foot
What happened to the young Pipel who refused to talk about the large quantity of weapons uncovered?
He was hanged
He was gassed
He was whipped
He was beaten
Passover is...
The camp Elie and his father were transferred to
The prayer for the dead
A Jewish holiday
Where Elie grew up
A-7713 is...
Elie's home address
Elie's identification number
The number of patients Dr. Mengele saw
Elie's block number
The author of Night is
John Steinbeck
Elie Wiesel
William Shakespeare
Daniel Keyes
Night is a ___________. (Genre)
Complete autobiography
Biography
Memoir
Fiction novel
What was the setting for the first section of Night?
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Palestine and Jerusalem
Berlin, Germany
Sighet, Transylvania
Moishe the Beadle warns the Sighet Jews that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives, but Elie and the other villagers
believe that he is trying to scare them
conclude that he had lost his mind
simply ignore him
do not trust the authenticity of his eyewitness account
What does a German decree require Jews to wear to identify themselves?
a yellow cloth star, to symbolize the Star of David
badly fitting prison clothes
the traditional Jewish yarmulke
phylacteries
What did Mrs.Schachter see in her vision?
she saw large open graves full of children
she saw a fire – a furnace with huge flames
she saw row after row of empty houses
she saw the face of Hitler laughing at the entire world
Which camp were Elie and his family taken to first?
Buna
Gleiwitz
Buchenwald
Auschwitz
How old does Eliezer tell Dr. Mengele he is when he arrives at Birkenau?
18
14
12
20
What was the main food staple during Elie’s stay in the concentration camps?
coffee and beans
rice and water
bread and soup
potatoes and bread
What ironic words are inscribed on the doors of Auschwitz?
“No danger here!”
“Work is honorable!”
“Death will not come!”
"Work will set you free!"
How do the SS guards execute prisoners who have committed crimes?
Hanging
Firing squad
Beheading
Gas chamber
According to Elie, what was his pitiful inheritance?
his lost boyhood in Sighet
memories of his father
a knife and spoon
a gold medal
In the dark shed among the struggling horde, what does Juliek produce the night before he dies?
his violin, which had previously when smashed and broken
a fragment of a Beethoven concerto
stories of life before the Nazi camps
the truth about their final destination
What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou’s son just before the evacuation?
he son was dead and the Rabbi could not admit it
the son had been trying to lose his father as the men were all running
the son had escaped and did not take his father
the son betrayed his father to get extra bread for himself
Chlomo Wiesel
Survived to tell the story of the concentration camps
Man who the men forgot to say the Kaddish for
Eliezer’s younger sister
Died at Buchenwald
Juliek
Played Beethoven for the dying men
Tormented Elie to get the cold crown
The distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau
Kapo who had bouts of madness
Meir Katz...
Survived to tell the story of the concentration camps
Survived to tell the story of the concentration camps
Saved Elie’s life in the cattle car
Rabbi who searched for his son
Akiba Drumer
The distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau
Man who the men forgot to say the Kaddish for
Women who had visions of the furnace fire
Kapo who had bouts of madness
Talmud
Italian party created by Benito Mussolini
Elie Wiesel’s birthplace
Jewish prayer for the dead
Record of Jewish laws, ethics, history and customs
Hitler
Notorious doctor who supervised selections
German politician; sought “Aryan” racial purity
A concentration camp
Italian party created by Benito Mussolini
Anti-Semitic
Prejudice views and hostility towards Jewish people
Jewish prayer for the dead
Collection of mystical and ethical Jewish teachings
Collection of mystical and ethical Jewish teachings
Kabbalah
Jewish prayer for the dead
A concentration camp
Collection of mystical and ethical Jewish teachings
Record of Jewish laws, ethics, history and customs
Who was America’s president during World War II and the Holocaust?
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
When the German soldiers came to Sighet, they appeared to be cruel and filled the
residents with fear and mistrust.
True
False
Elie’s mother and younger sister were killed at a concentration camp.
True
False
After his father’s death, Elie felt freedom, not sorrow.
True
False
