NIGHT, Chapters 1-3

What did Elie want to study at the beginning of the story?

• calculus

• cabbala

• Catholicism

• calligraphy

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Who helped Elie with his studies?

• his father

• Moche

• the Rabbi

• his mother

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Why did the people of Sighet NOT believe Moche's stories?

• They thought he was crazy and wanted pity.

• He was known to pretend to be German.

• He had been convicted of crimes before.

• He had never been seen outside his house.

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Moche's stories of what was happening to Jews in other towns is an example of ---

• insanity

• second person point of view

• simile

• foreshadowing

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The Jews of Sighet are deported and forced to get into ---.

• trucks

• cattle wagons

• horse-drawn carriages

• trouble

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Madame Schachter's visions of fire are an example of what literary device?

• foreshadowing

• irony

• flashback

• personification

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The people are taken to --- where they actually can see flames in the darkness.

• Sighet

• Germany

• Auschwitz

• Berlin

The German phrase at the entrance to Auschwitz ("Arbeit macht frei") means ---.

• "Work sets you free"

• "Death is freedom"

• "You will never be free"

• "Germany is free"

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One of the prisoners tells Elie to say he is --- instead of 14.

• 20

• 10

• 18

• 12

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CCSS.RL.8.3

What do the men recite as they are approaching the crematory?

• famous speeches

• the cabbala

• the Kaddish (prayer for the dead)

• the Lord's Prayer

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