Night by Elie Wiesel (all)

What town do Eliezer and his family come from?

a. Gleiwitz

b. Sighet

c. Haifa

d. Budapest

b. Sighet

What specifically does Eliezer recruit Moshe the Beadle to teach him?

a. The Cabbala

b. The Talmud

c. The Torah

d. The Haftorah

a. The Cabbala

What is Eliezer's oldest sister's name?

a. Béa

b. Hilda

c. Tzipora

d. Esther

b. Hilda

Upon his return to the village, what does Moshe the Beadle try to do?

a. Break into Eliezer's home

b. Spy for the Nazis

c. Become a rabbi

d. Warn the villagers about the Nazi threat

d. Warn the villagers about the Nazi threat

After being evacuated from their original homes, where are the Jews of Sighet first sent?

a. To Auschwitz/Birkenau

b. To a ghetto within Sighet

c. To Czechoslovakia

d. To Buna

b. To a ghetto within Sighet

On what day is Eliezer's family deported from the Sighet?

a. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year

b. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement

c. The first day of Passover, the commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt

d. The Sabbath, the day of rest

d. The Sabbath, the day of rest

On the train from sight, of what does Madame Schächter have visions?

a. A gas chamber

b. Israel

c. A furnace

d. Angels of Liberation

c. A furnace

What do several men on the train do when they are unable to endure Madame Schächter's screaming?

a. Stuff their ears with cotton

b. Beat her senseless

c. Jump off the train

d. Persuade her son to keep her quiet

b. Beat her senseless

From whom is Eliezer separated at Birkenau?

a. His mother and three sisters

b. His father

c. Both his parents

d. His entire family

a. His mother and three sisters

During the first selection at Birkenau, what do Eliezer and his father, respectively, pretend their ages are?

a. Fifteen and fifty

b. Fifteen and forty

c. Eighteen and forty

d. Eighteen and fifty

c. Eighteen and forty

Who is the infamous Nazi doctor presiding over the Auschwitz arrivals?

a. Dr. Mankle

b. Dr. Mengele

c. Dr. Menglein

d. Dr. Maunklietz

b. Dr. Mengele

What is the Kaddish?

a. The Jewish prayer for the dead

b. A leader of the Jewish community

c. The Hebrew translation of "The Holocaust"

d. The book of Jewish mysticism

a. The Jewish prayer for the dead

In Birkenau, who beats Eliezer's father?

a. Meir Katz

b. A gypsy Kapo

c. An SS guard

d. A horde of prisoners

b. A gypsy Kapo

At Auschwitz, who recognizes Eliezer and his father?

a. Their relative from Antwerp, named Stein

b. A french Jewish woman posing as an Aryan

c. Their rabbi from Sighet

d. An old customer of Eliezer's father

a. Their relative from Antwerp, named Stein

At Buna, with whom is Eliezer placed in a block?

a. Electricians

b. Masons

c. Farmers

d. Musicians

d. Musicians

What is Idek?

a. Eliezer's Kapo in the electrical equipment warehouse

b. A violinist who befriends Eliezer

c. Yosi's brother

d. An old Jewish mystic

a. Eliezer's Kapo in the electrical equipment warehouse

To whom does Eliezer lose the gold crown on his tooth?

a. Franek

b. Idek

c. Akiba Drumer

d. A Jewish dentist from Czechoslovakia

a. Franek

What do the Gestapo do after an instance of sabotage at Buna?

a. Arrest Eliezer

b. Torture Eliezer's father

c. Hang a young child

d. Close down Buna

c. Hang a young child

After Akiba Drumer's death, what do Eliezer and the other prisoners do?

a. Decorate his grave

b. Forget to say the prayer for the dead

c. Rebel against the Nazis

d. Secretly light memorial candles in his honor

b. Forget to say the prayer for the dead

In January 1945, what sort of infection does Eliezer contract?

a. Mouth

b. Thumb

c. Stomach

d. Foot

d. Foot

In the concentration camp hospital, Eliezer's neighbor remarks he has lost faith in everything except what?

a. God

b. Death

c. Hitler

d. Eliezer

c. Hitler

During the long run after Buna, what does Eliezer say was the only thing that kept him from giving up?

a. His faith in God

b. His desire for justice

c. His father's presence

d. A sense of pride

c. His father's presence

In the shed, taking a brief break from the run, what does Eliezer pray for?

a. For the dead

b. For an end to the war

c. For the strength to never abandon his father for his own benefit

d. For a quick end to their long journey

c. For the strength to never abandon his father for his own benefit

In the barracks at Gleiwitz, what does Eliezer hear?

a. His mother's voice

b. The quiet prayers of all the Jewish prisoners

c. Rabbi Eliahou's son mercilessly berating his father

d. Juliek playing Beethoven on the violin

d. Juliek playing Beethoven on the violin

Where does Eliezer's father die?

a. Gleiwitz

b. Buchenwald

c. Birkenau

d. Buna

b. Buchenwald

What is Elie Wiesel's country of origin?

a. Poland

b. Germany

c. Hungary

d. Romania

c. Hungary

When did the Holocaust reach Wiesel's country?

a. 1944

b. 1939

c. 1941

d. 1942

a. 1944

Which concentration camp were Wiesel and his family taken to?

a. Treblinka

b. Auschwitz

c. Bergen-Belsen

d. Dachau

b. Auschwitz

Why were some publishers reluctant to accept Night?

a. They had Nazi sympathies

b. They thought Wiesel fabricated the story

c. They believed the book was too confusing

d. They thought it was too pessimistic

d. They thought it was too pessimistic

Why was using a fictionalized narrator important to Wiesel?

a. It allowed him to get some distance from the events

b. It enabled him to avoid blame for some of his mistakes

c. It protected the identities of his friends and family

d. It showed the world that his imagination was intact

a. It allowed him to get some distance from the events

Why is Eliezer's education cut short?

a. He is drafted into the war

b. He is sent to a concentration camp

c. His town is attacked by Nazis

d. His teacher is deported

d. His teacher is deported

Where does Eliezer last see his mother and sisters?

a. Birkenau

b. Sighet

c. Buchenwald

d. Gleiwitz

a. Birkenau

Why does Eliezer have to have an operation in the camp?

a. He injured his foot

b. He ruptured his appendix

c. He broke his arm

d. He sprained his knee

a. He injured his foot

Why do the Nazis force the prisoners to evacuate the camp?

a. The camp cannot handle the number of prisoners

b. The Allies have taken Berlin

c. The Russian army is approaching

d. The prisoners are starting to riot

c. The Russian army is approaching

What spiritual experience does Eliezer undergo in the camp?

a. He starts to feel that he is being punished for something

b. He begins to lose his faith in God and humanity

c. He realizes that all human beings share the same fears

d. He finds comfort in his belief in an afterlife

b. He begins to lose his faith in God and humanity

Apart from Eliezer, which character features most prominently in the book

a. Moshe

b. Chlomo

c. Idek

d. Stein

b. Chlomo

Why do people think Madame Schchter is crazy?

a. She thinks she can escape the camp with ease

b. She believes that the Nazis will treat them well

c. She says that she can hear trains rumbling at night

d. She claims to see furnaces in the distance

d. She claims to see furnaces in the distance

Who takes Eliezer's gold tooth?

a. Franek

b. Idek

c. Zalman

d. Tibi

a. Franek

What does Eliezer plan to do with Tibi and Yosi after the war?

a. Publish their story

b. Become American citizens

c. Move to Palestine

d. Start an electrical company

c. Move to Palestine

Who saves Eliezer's life on the way to Buchenwald?

a. Meir Katz

b. Stein

c. Juliek

d. Rabbi Eliahou

a. Meir Katz

How does Eliezer relate his experience in the Holocaust?

a. Through abstract, intellectual, impersonal concepts

b. By placing it in the context of global geopolitics at the time

c. From a highly subjective and personal perspective

d. As a neutral and objective historical account

c. From a highly subjective and personal perspective

What is the relationship between Eliezer's experiences and Wiesel's?

a. Eliezer's experiences are what Wiesel wished would have happened

b. Eliezer's experiences have only slight connections to Wiesel's

c. Their experiences are the same, with a few small details changed

d. Their experiences are similar in the beginning but very different by the end

c. Their experiences are the same, with a few small details changed

Why did Wiesel write Night?

a. To explain the causes and consequences of the Holocaust

b. To understand the psychology of the Nazis

c. To relate the emotional experience of the Holocaust

d. To criticize the rest of the world for not stopping the Holocaust sooner

c. To relate the emotional experience of the Holocaust

Why is Eliezer's commitment to his father so important?

a. It shows how frightened he was

b. It reminds him of his humanity

c. It reveals the cruelty of the Nazis

d. It highlights the confusion of the war

b. It reminds him of his humanity

What is the significance of Moshe in the book?

a. He introduces Eliezer's spiritual concerns

b. He foreshadows the liberation of the camps

c. He represents the spirit of resistance to the Nazis

d. He provides an adult perspective to balance Eliezer's

a. He introduces Eliezer's spiritual concerns

How does Eliezer view the world at the beginning of Night?

a. He sees it as a reflection of a benevolent God

b. He believes it has become corrupted and immoral

c. He views it as drained of all human happiness

d. He understands it as a strictly material phenomenon

a. He sees it as a reflection of a benevolent God

What is the significance of the cruelty of the prisoners to one another?

a. It reflects the hostility Eliezer feels toward his father

b. It shows the evil and cruelty that everyone is capable of

c. It demonstrates the fundamental immorality of imprisonment

d. It inspires Eliezer's attempt to escape the camp

b. It shows the evil and cruelty that everyone is capable of

How does Night relate to the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac?

a. It also shows that God intervenes to save innocent lives

b. It demonstrates the opposite point, that God remains silent and uninvolved

c. It demonstrates the lasting relevance of biblical lessons

d. The stories are unrelated

b. It demonstrates the opposite point, that God remains silent and uninvolved

How does Eliezer try to overcome the silence of the victims of the Holocaust?

a. By analyzing the Nazis

b. By rebelling against his captors

c. By telling his story

d. By saving his father's life

c. By telling his story

What always accompanies night in Eliezer's account?

a. The budding hope of liberation

b. The comforting feeling of community

c. The frustrating absence of order

d. The worst depths of suffering

d. The worst depths of suffering

What effect did the trains bound for concentration camps have on Mauriac?

a. They encouraged him to fight the Nazis

b. They inspired a deeper belief in Christianity

c. They shook his faith in civilization

d. They confirmed his sense of the world's absurdity

c. They shook his faith in civilization

Mauriac thinks the Holocaust betrayed the ideals of which historical event?

a. The French Revolution

b. The First World War

c. The Renaissance

d. The fall of Rome

a. The French Revolution

Whose story does Mauriac compare Wiesel's to?

a. Primo Levi's

b. Anne Frank's

c. Mary Frank's

d. Irene Nemirovsky's

b. Anne Frank's

What does Mauriac cite as a reason for Night's relevance?

a. It is much better written than other Holocaust memoirs

b. It is one of the only eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz

c. It is particularly perceptive about the Nazis

d. It is a unique perspective on a historic event

d. It is a unique perspective on a historic event

Mauriac cites which of the following as Night's most striking quality?

a. Wiesel's struggles with God and religion

b. The book's literary and intellectual aspects

c. The historical perspective the book provides

d. The entertaining way Wiesel tells his story

a. Wiesel's struggles with God and religion

What do Eliezer's parents do for a living?

a. They are bankers

b. They are shopkeepers

c. They are tailors

d. They are doctors

b. They are shopkeepers

What does Eliezer study against his father's wishes?

a. Cabbala

b. Literature

c. The Talmud

d. Astronomy

a. Cabbala

How do the townspeople react to Moshe's story about the Gestapo?

a. They begin preparing for war

b. They go into hiding

c. They seek out further proof

d. They think he's crazy

d. They think he's crazy

How soon do the Nazis enter the country after the Hungarian government falls?

a. Two weeks later

b. Exactly one year later

c. The next day

d. Within four hours

c. The next day

Who offers to hide Eliezer's family

a. Martha, their servant

b. Stein, their cousin

c. Moshe, Eliezer's teacher

d. Yosi, Eliezer's friend

a. Martha, their servant

What happens to the Jews as they ride in the cattle cars?

a. They turn on one another and start fighting

b. They begin to lose their sense of decency

c. They grow increasingly calm and content

d. They become angry and fight their captors

b. They begin to lose their sense of decency

How do the Nazis prevent the Jews from escaping the rail cars?

a. They nail the doors shut

b. They keep the trains moving at all times

c. They light fires near the doorways

d. They post two guards in every car

a. They nail the doors shut

How do the other prisoners react to Madame Schchter's screams?

a. They grow worried themselves

b. They throw her from the train

c. They bind and gag her

d. They ask the guards to kill her

c. They bind and gag her

What do the locals tell the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz?

a. The camp is exterminating Jews and stealing their possessions

b. The area is about to fall under the control of the Russians

c. Their families will be kept together and they won't suffer

d. Their captors simply want to resettle them in Poland

c. Their families will be kept together and they won't suffer

What do the prisoners see when they arrive at the camp?

a. Rows and rows of children's shoes

b. Train cars loaded with stolen property

c. Cemeteries full of open graves

d. The chimneys of enormous furnaces

d. The chimneys of enormous furnaces

What does the prisoner tell Eliezer and his father to lie about when they arrive?

a. Their religion

b. Their occupations

c. Their relatives

d. Their ages

d. Their ages

What do the older Jews say they should do when they discover what awaits them?

a. Fight back

b. Rely on faith

c. Stop spreading rumors

d. Kill themselves first

b. Rely on faith

Who oversees the selection process at Auschwitz?

a. Josef Mengele

b. Akiba Drumer

c. Meir Katz

d. Ivan the Terrible

a. Josef Mengele

What is happening in the pit that Eliezer sees after entering Birkenau?

a. Women are being raped

b. Old men are being executed

c. Babies are being burned

d. Children are being beaten

c. Babies are being burned

What happens when Eliezer's father asks to go to the bathroom?

a. A Nazi guard shoots at his feet

b. He is told to go where he sits

c. The head prisoner beats him

d. Eliezer is choked to set an example

c. The head prisoner beats him

What job are Eliezer and his father assigned to do?

a. Build bomb casings

b. Count electrical fittings

c. Polish ball bearings

d. Patch rubber tires

b. Count electrical fittings

Why is Eliezer told to go to the dentist?

a. To have his gold crown removed

b. To fill in a nagging cavity

c. To see if he is fit for work

d. To separate him from his father

a. To have his gold crown removed

Where does Eliezer later see the French girl who comforted him?

a. Hiding in a disused barrack

b. Marching to the crematorium

c. On the Metro in Paris

d. In an airport

c. On the Metro in Paris

What does Eliezer realize when Idek beats his father?

a. His father is not as weak as might appear

b. Idek is capable of small kindnesses as well as cruelty

c. He no longer believes that they will be rescued

d. The camp is making him care only about himself

d. The camp is making him care only about himself

What does Eliezer see that is a breaking point for his faith?

a. A man being shot for stealing soup

b. A guard raping a prisoner

c. A woman strangling her husband

d. A child being hanged

d. A child being hanged

What holiday do the Jews celebrate in Buna?

a. Hanukkah

b. Rosh Hashanah

c. Sukkot

d. Purim

b. Rosh Hashanah

In what way does Eliezer think the Jews are God's chosen people?

a. They have been set aside as protected

b. They have been chosen to spread God's word

c. They have been selected to be a righteous army

d. They have been picked to be massacred

d. They have been picked to be massacred

What does Eliezer's father give him when they are about to be separated?

a. A Bible

b. A photo album

c. A diary

d. A knife and spoon

d. A knife and spoon

What effect does the concentration camp have on the rabbi?

a. He converts to Christianity

b. He becomes a pacifist

c. He stops believing in God

d. He transforms into a militant leader

c. He stops believing in God

What happens to the Jews who remain behind when the camp is evacuated?

a. They are freed by the Russians

b. They are killed by the remaining Nazis

c. They overthrow the guards and escape

d. They die of cold and starvation

a. They are freed by the Russians

What happens to prisoners who stop running on the way to Gleiwitz?

a. They are shot

b. They are left behind

c. They are returned to Auschwitz

d. They are rescued by the Americans

a. They are shot

Who does Eliezer pray he will never act like?

a. Zalman's father

b. Rabbi Eliahou's son

c. Meir Katz

d. Juliek

b. Rabbi Eliahou's son

What breaks the silence the first night in the barracks at Gleiwitz?

a. Zalman's screams

b. Meir Katz's sobbing

c. Juliek's violin

d. His father's laughter

c. Juliek's violin

Why do the locals throw bread into the train car as the Jews pass by?

a. They are moved by the prisoner's suffering and want to help

b. They are secretly working for the advancing Russian army

c. They need to assuage their guilt about the Holocaust

d. They like to see the prisoners fight each other for food

d. They like to see the prisoners fight each other for food

What happens when the old man in the train car gets hold of a piece of bread?

a. His son beats him to death for it

b. He divides it with his brother

c. Meir Katz takes it from him

d. Eliezer asks for a piece for his father

a. His son beats him to death for it

What does Eliezer's father do when they arrived at Buchenwald?

a. Snaps and tries to steal Eliezer's food

b. Asks Eliezer to put him out of his misery

c. Sits in the snow and refuses to move

d. Cradles the dead body of Meir Katz

c. Sits in the snow and refuses to move

What does Eliezer feel guilty about as he feeds his father?

a. He would rather eat the food himself

b. He kept some food behind to eat alone

c. He stole the food from another prisoner

d. He told his father that the camp was being liberated

a. He would rather eat the food himself

What illness does Eliezer's father have?

a. Influenza

b. Jaundice

c. Dysentery

d. Tetanus

c. Dysentery

What does Eliezer feel when his father is taken to be killed?

a. Sadness but also acceptance

b. Outrage but also despair

c. Relief but also guilt

d. Anger but also solace

c. Relief but also guilt

What do the Nazis decide to do as the Americans approach the camp?

a. Save themselves and flee the camp

b. Arm the Jews to defend the camp

c. Move everyone back to Auschwitz

d. Kill all of the remaining Jews

d. Kill all of the remaining Jews

What town do Eliezer and his family come from?

a. Gleiwitz

b. Sighet

c. Haifa

d. Budapest

b. Sighet