English "The Night" Test

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How many men get off the train at Buchenwald?

12

How old was Elie when he first arrived at Auschwitz?

15

How many people ride on each train car in the beginning of the book?

80

Who treats Elie nicely? After the war, he later sees this person on a train.

A French girl at his job place

What is a simlie

A comparison using "like" or "as"

What do the chimney's represent?

A constant reminder: Work or be killed

When Elie looks at himself in the mirror what does he see staring back at him?

A corpse

The prisoners were forced to watch others hanged, and they became immune to it. There was one time when they did cry though. When and why?

A liitle boy was hanged and he did not die right away; he suffocated hanging from the rope.

What does Madame Schachter see while she is in the cattle car being transported to Auchwitz?

A terrible fire and huge flames

What is foreshadowing?

A warning or indication of a future event

Who comes to rescue the prisoners at the camp?

Americans

This novel falls into the ______________ genre.

Autobiographical

Why won't the first doctor who comes along help Elie's father?

Because Elie's father is too sick

What is the holding center for Auschwitz where the Jews were separated into two groups?

Birkenau

What are the prisoners stunned to see as they leave the cattle car?

Chimneys belonging to crematories

Elie and the prisoners are witnesses to a young man being hanged. Afterwards, he describes the taste of the food that night. Elie says that the food tastes like....

Death

Who was the evil doctor who experimented on Jewish prisoners?

Dr. Mengele

What is it that Elie's father is suffering from?

Dysentery

What happens to the Wiesel family when they arrive at Birkenau?

Elie and his father are separated from Tzipora and his mother

When Rabbi Eliahou comes around looking for his son, why does Elie lie to him?

Elie doesn't want to admit that he saw Eliahou's son abandon his weak father

What is the last word that Elie hears his father say?

Eliezer

The dark flames symbolize what?

Evil/hatred

The silence represents

Fear/apathy

Eliezer is in hospital when he hears the Russians are going to take over the camp. The Nazis evacuate, and Elie decides to take his father and go with them. Why did this decision look bad in hindsight?

He and his father would have been freed by the Russians in a few days if they had stayed.

When Elie's father was very sick and lying in a bed under Elie, what did Elie do when he heard his father call out his name?

He comes down from his bunk and leans over his father as long as he can.

When Elie was forced into the barracks during an air raid, he lost his father. What did he do the next morning when he realized his father was missing?

He decides to look for his father, but he is starting to see his father as a burden.

When Elie woke up the next morning and found his father gone, how did Elie respond?

He felt a bit like he was free of the burden his father had become.

What was the problem with Elie's father when he was sick and could not move?

He has dysentery.

Once again the people are herded into a cattle car after the march. What happens to Eliezer's father when they are first put in the car?

He is almost removed as dead.

Why isn't Elie sure about reciting the Kaddish?

He is losing faith in God

On their train trip to Germany, Elie saves his father when he is nearly thrown off the train. Why was he nearly thrown out?

He is mistaken for dead, but Elie wakes him up

How does Eliezer react to the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year?

He is rebellious and angry with a God who would let the Jews be massacred.

Meir Katz was a friend of Elie's father who lost his hope during their train ride together. What happens to Meir once the train stopped?

He remains on the train with the dead.

During Yom Kippur, why does Elie decide to avoid fasting?

He wants to rebel against God His father urges him to eat

Why were the dentists so interested in Eliezer's mouth?

He was looking for gold fillings.

What was unique about Dr. Mengele's appearance?

He wore a monocle and carried a baton

What happens to Elie's father at the end of the chapter?

His body is taken away during the night

During the run away from Auschwitz, there was only one thing that kept Eliezer from letting himself die. What was it?

His father

Why does Eliezer think that was Rabbi Eliabhou separated from his son?

His son ran away and left him to increase his own chances of survival.

Who played his violin for the prisoners until he died?

Juliek

What horrible thing does Elie witness a son, Meir, do to his father?

Kill him over food

Why does Eliezer spend so much time with Moshe the Beadle as a young man in Sighet?

Moshe discusses the Cabala and prayer with Eliezer.

What does the Baton represent?

Power over life/death

His son wanted to leave him behind because he had become a burden to him:

Rabbi Elihaou

What does Madame Schachter scream out continuously?

She screams out of the fear of the fire

At Birkenau, why does a man in line with Eliezer tell him and his father to lie about their ages?

So they would be placed with other able-bodied men and not be killed.

What does Moshe the Beadle teach Elie?

The teachings of the Kabbalah

The cattle trains pull through towns. What happens to them?

The townspeople throw bread into the trains to watch the prisoners fight for the food.

As time passes, what happens to the Jews of Sighet?

They are forced to wear yellow stars They are forced to live in ghettos

What happens to Moshe the Beadle and the foreign Jews in Sighet?

They are hauled away in train cars They are taken to Poland They are forced to dig their own graves

What tattoos do the prisoners receive?

They are tattooed with an identification letter/number pattern

How do people aboard the cattle car try to get Madame Schachter to quiet down?

They beat her up and tie her up

When the men arrive at the shed at the end of the march, what happens to many of them?

They lie in the snow and die in their sleep.

How did the Jews of Sighet react to Moshe's miraculous escape/experience?

They thought he had gone mad and did not listen to him.

What happened to the foreign Jews from Sighet who were taken away by the Hungarian police

They were forced to dig mass graves and then were shot and buried in thise graves.

Elie and his father decide to leave Buna when the Germans evacuate the camp. What would have happened if they had remained at Buna?

They would have been liberated by the Russians

Why did Elie want to study with Moishe the Beadle?

To study the Kabbalah

After Moshe is taken away by Hungarian police, he returns to Sighet. Why?

To tell the people that they too will be killed if they do not take action.

What is dramatic irony?

When the audience knows something the characters don't

Who gets stomach cramps during the march and falls to the ground and gets trampled by others?

Zalman

At the conclusion of "Night" when Elie was a free man, who did he see when he looked in the hospital mirror?

a corpse

What is a metaphor?

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Madame Schachter's hallucinations turned out to be ________________.

foreshadowing

What is verbal irony?

say one thing but mean the opposite

What is personification?

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

Whose death symbolizes the loss of Elie's faith?

the pipel

What is situational irony?

when the outcome is the opposite of what is expected


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