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Night by Elie Wiesel Quiz

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This is a quiz on the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel. It covers basic characters, plot, and context of the memoir/novel written by Wiesel.
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Question 1

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What is the name of the character who tries to tell Eliezer's community about the horrors of what happened to the foreign Jews he/she was with on the deportation trains? (Hint: He was said to be a lunatic, and ignored.)
Answer
  • Eliezer
  • Moshe the Beadle
  • Madame Schächter
  • Rabbi Eliahou

Question 2

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What are Eliezer and his family told as they pull into Auschwitz?
Answer
  • That they are going to be exterminated shortly.
  • That they have arrived at a labor camp where they will be treated well and kept together as families.
  • That they must pay for their sins through hard work and starvation.
  • That they have to separate and give up what's left of their belongings.

Question 3

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What is the name of the woman who screams that she can see fires in the distance? (Hint: She has a ten-year old son)
Answer
  • Madame Schächter
  • Béa
  • Hilda
  • Tzipora

Question 4

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What smell does Eliezer describe upon arriving at Birkenau on the train?
Answer
  • The smell of dead corpses
  • The smell of poisonous gas
  • The smell of burning flesh
  • The smell of human waste

Question 5

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What happens to the dentist that's supposed to extract Eliezer's gold tooth?
Answer
  • He is found to be a Jew and is executed.
  • He gets into a fight with a Jewish prisoner who kills him.
  • He gets caught stealing food and beat to death.
  • He is condemned to hanging for illegally trading in gold teeth.

Question 6

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What is a Kapo?
Answer
  • A head guard at a concentration camp
  • A prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners
  • A caretaker assigned to each block, responsible for getting each prisoner's food for them
  • The soldier responsible for the furnaces

Question 7

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Who is the Kapo on Eliezer's block at Auschwitz?
Answer
  • Mier Katz
  • Zalman
  • Stein
  • Idek

Question 8

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How is Eliezer's gold tooth removed?
Answer
  • With brass tongs
  • With a rusty spoon
  • With a dull pocket knife
  • It is never removed

Question 9

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Where does Eliezer say God is during the hanging of the little boy?
Answer
  • Protecting others
  • No where to be found
  • With the Nazis
  • Hanging with the little boy on the gallows

Question 10

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What happens to the Jews in the infirmary after the rest are evacuated?
Answer
  • They are executed
  • They are burned alive
  • They are freed by the Russians only days later
  • They are left alone with their conditions, and die before anyone reaches them

Question 11

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What does Eliezer injure just before he is evacuated to Buna with the rest?
Answer
  • His knee
  • His foot
  • His neck
  • His wrist

Question 12

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What happens to Zalman, the boy who was running next to Eliezer?
Answer
  • He gets ahead of Eliezer and Eliezer never sees him again
  • He begins attacking others in an effort to survive
  • He fights his way next to Eliezer the entire time, and they both survive
  • He cannot take running anymore, stops, and is trampled to death

Question 13

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What did Rabbi Eliahou's son do to him during their run in the snow to Buna?
Answer
  • He ran ahead of him when it seemed his father would not make it
  • He kicked him down when his father pleaded for support
  • He let go of his hand, and died in the snow
  • He helped him and they made it to the abandoned village together

Question 14

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Eliezer gets a chance to sleep when they reach Gleiwitz.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 15

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What did the German townspeople throw to the Jewish prisoners on the train out of Gleiwitz? (Hint: A son beats his father to death for it, before he is beaten to death himself)
Answer
  • Water
  • Cake
  • Bread
  • Money

Question 16

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Eliezer's father dies on the train to Gleiwitz.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 17

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Of the 100 Jews brought on the train to Gleiwitz, how many survived?
Answer
  • 98
  • 65
  • 26
  • 12

Question 18

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Eliezer's father dies from both dysentery and physical abuse.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 19

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What year is Eliezer finally freed?
Answer
  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946

Question 20

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Finally, what does Eliezer say he sees when he looks at himself in the mirror after all this time?
Answer
  • A ghost
  • A corpse
  • A monster
  • An animal
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