Night Trivia and Test Review 2016

Question 1  Why was Moshe the Beadle deported and how did he survive?  Foreigner, pretended to be dead

Question 2  What is a ghetto and why was it set up in Siget?  Holding place for Jews  Contain/control them

Question 3  What was burning in the pit in Auschwitz?  Babies

Question 4  What was the purpose of military music in the concentration camps?  Aid prisoner marching

Question 5  Moshe the Beadle’s role could be seen as what literary device? (options)  A Metaphor  B Foreshadowing  C Imagery  D Surprise  B Foreshadowing

Question 6  What, according to Elie, rules the ghetto?  A. His father  B. The ghetto  C. Illusion of hope  D. Despair  C. Illusion of hope

Question 7  Madame Schächter’s cries. Moshe the Beadle’s story of deportation, and the rumors and fears of Jews as the Fascists came into power are all examples of what literary device?  Foreshadowing

Question 8  Who is Dr. Mengele and what was his main role in the novel?  Notorious doctor at concentration camps; took part in the selection process

Question 9  When the young boy is executed in the assembly place, one of the prisoners asks, “Where is God?” How does Elie answer this question for himself?  A. God is hanging from the gallows  B. God has abandoned his people  C. God is alive  D. God no longer exists  A-God is hanging from the gallows

Question 10  Who does the prisoner next to Elie say he trusts the most?  Hitler

Question 11  Elie and his father leaving the hospital before it’s liberated is an example of what literary device?  Irony

Question 12  What death prayer do the men often recite?  Kaddish

Question 13  How does Elie describe what sees the first time he looks in a mirror after the liberation?  A corpse

Question 14  What was the last word Elie’s father said?  Eliezer

Question 15  Whose death symbolizes the loss of Elie’s faith?  A. Juliek, the violinist  B. Akiba Drumer  C. Moshe, the Beadle  D. the pipel  D- The pipel

Question 16 Night is considered what type of literary genre? Memoir

Question 17  Who is Rabbi Eliahou?  A. Jewish man forced to put his own father in the crematory oven  B. Jewish violinsit who celebrated surviving death march with Beethoven  C. Jewish man trampled to death in death march  D. Jewish man whose son tried to lose him in the death march  D-Jewish man whose son tried to lose him in the death march

Question 18  Who is Stein of Antwerp?  A. A relative who meets Elie and his father at Auschwitz. He is worries about his wife and his sons.  B. Polish-Jew who wanted Elie’s gold-crowned tooth.  C. Hasidic Jew who was deported and returned to warn the people of Sighet.  D. Jewish priest in the camps who escaped selection  A-A relative who meets Elie and his father at Auschwitz. He is worries about his wife and his sons

Question 19  Who is Zalman?  A. Jewish man trampled to death in the death march  B. Polish-Jew who wanted Elie’s gold crown  C. Jewish man forced to put his own father in the crematorium  D. Jewish violinist who played Beethoven  A-Jewish man trampled to death in the death march

Question 20  Who is Bela Katz?  A. Jewish man who acquired dysentery and remained close to Elie  B. Jewish man forced to put his own father in the crematory  C. Polish-Jew who wanted Elie’s gold- crowned tooth.  D. Jewish m an whose son tried to lose him in the death march  B-Jewish man forced to put his own father in the crematory

Review!!  Yossi and Tibbi  Pipel  Idek  Akida Drumer  Madame Schachter  Franek  Juliek  Young Frenchwoman

Euphemisms  Final Solution  Collateral Damage  Liquidation  Crematory  Bath houses  Special Treatment  “Cleansing the world”  Resettlement  Finished off  Relieve themselves

Vocabulary  Aryan  Anti-Semitic  Notorious  Crucible  Lament  Genocide  Gestapo  Kapo  Liberated  Prostrate  Dehumanization  Convoy  Atonement  Inert  Idleness  Synagogue  Wretched  Emaciated  Maul  Unprecedented