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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Questão 1

Questão
"Night" is the only written memoir by Elie Wiesel.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 2

Questão
Where is Eliezer originally from?
Responda
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Transylvania
  • France

Questão 3

Questão
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.)
Responda
  • Eliezer
  • Moshe the Beadle
  • Madame Schächter
  • Rabbi Eliahou

Questão 4

Questão
Which camp is Eliezer housed in throughout the majority of his memoir?
Responda
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau
  • Chelmno
  • Gleiwitz
  • Buchenwald

Questão 5

Questão
At which camp does Eliezer's father die?
Responda
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau
  • Chelmno
  • Gleiwitz
  • Buchenwald

Questão 6

Questão
What is the name of the work camp Eliezer and his father are sent to?
Responda
  • Broma
  • Birkenau
  • Belzec
  • Buna

Questão 7

Questão
What are Eliezer and his family told as they pull into Auschwitz?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 8

Questão
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)
Responda
  • Madame Schächter
  • Béa
  • Hilda
  • Tzipora

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

Questão
On which "block" are Eliezer and his father housed?
Responda
  • The musicians' block
  • The electricians' block
  • The mechanics' block
  • The farmers' block

Questão 11

Questão
What is the name of the Jewish violinist Eliezer meets upon moving into the musicians' block?
Responda
  • Franek
  • Juliek
  • Inek
  • We never get his name

Questão 12

Questão
What happens to the dentist that's supposed to extract Eliezer's gold tooth?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 13

Questão
What is a Kapo?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

Questão
What happens to the man who crawls to the soup that is left alone in an attempt to eat some?
Responda
  • He is shot as soon as he reaches the bowl and lifts himself to drink from it
  • He knocks the bowl over and faces execution via hanging
  • He is captured and tortured before he is executed
  • He gets soup and safely makes it back

Questão 17

Questão
The prisoners are too jaded to cry when the little boy associated with the resistance is hung.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

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

Questão 19

Questão
Eliezer observes Yom Kippur by fasting with the rest of the Jewish people around him.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 20

Questão
What happens to the Jews in the infirmary after the rest are evacuated?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

Questão
What happens to Zalman, the boy who was running next to Eliezer?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 23

Questão
What did Rabbi Eliahou's son do to him during their run in the snow to Buna?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 24

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

Questão 25

Questão
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)
Responda
  • Water
  • Cake
  • Bread
  • Money

Questão 26

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

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

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

Questão 29

Questão
What year is Eliezer finally freed?
Responda
  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946

Questão 30

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

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