Night the Novel

What does Moshe the Beadle try to do when he returns to Sighet?

• Warn the Jews about what will happen to them

• Encourage his community to believe in God

• Create a resistance movement

• Teach Kabbalah to the community

In what point of view was Night written?

• first person

• second person

• third limited

• third omniscient 

After the pipel's death by hanging, Elie states, "Where He is? This is where--hanging from this gallows..." The best literary term to describe Elie's statement is

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• symbolism

When Elie walks in on Idek while he is spending time with a young girl, Idek tells Elie that he will be punished. What happens to Elie?

• Elie is forced to lay on a box and is whipped in front of the other prisoners.

• Nothing happens to Elie; it was only a threat.

• Elie is forced to work in the camp kitchen and make food for the other prisoners.

During the Death March, why does Mr. Wiesel warn Elie not to go to sleep in the snow?

• He will be left behind

• He might not wake up

• He will be beaten

• He will be robbed of his shoes

What was the name of the camp that Elie and his father arrived at during the beginning of Chapter 4?

• Auschwitz

• Buchenwald

• Buna

• Birkenau

With what instrument is Elie’s gold crown removed?

• a) a rusty fork

• b) Franek’s bare hands

• c) a scalpel

• d) a rusty spoon

Match the following incidents from the end of the novel with their descriptions.

• Throw bread into the cattle cars to watch them fight

• Meir Katz

• They throw dead prisoners out of the cattle cars into the snow

• Spectators

• Saves Elie from being strangled but dies on the trip

• Gravediggers

• A father is killed by his son to get this, then the son is also killed

• Arrival at Buchenwald

• Only 12 of the original 100 get out of the cattle car

• Bread scraps

At what camp do Elie and his father arrive at the beginning of chapter 4?

• Buna

• Auschwitz

• Gleiwitz

• Birkenau

Who is Moshe the Beadle?

• Elie's father

• A local inn keeper

• Elie's teacher of Jewish mysticism

• Elie's protector