Night Quizzes

Night Quiz 1

1 Moché the Beadle was deported from Sighet because he was:
A Social Democrat

A foreigner

Homosexual

Jewish
2 What was the most important thing that Moché taught Eliezer?
To always remember his own faults even though those of his persecutors may seem far worse in comparison.

To live through persecution by focusing on future revenge.

To try to ask God the right questions, not to try to find the right answers.

To strive to love God unconditionally.
3 What emotion best describes the attitude of the Jewish community in Sighet towards the Germans during the first five years of World War II?
Indifference

Resentment

Terror

Enthusiasm
4 During which Jewish holiday did the German persecution of the Jews in Sighet begin?
Passover

Yom Kippur

Hannukah

Rosh Hashanah
5 How did Eliezer learn that the Jews were to be deported?
He was stopped in the streets by a messenger from Budapest.

An official notice was sent to all the families in the community.

German soldiers forcibly drove families out of their homes.

His father heard from the Jewish Council.
6 Which of the following people did not try to warn Eliezer's family to try to escape?
Moché the Beadle

An old family servant

Eliezer's uncle living in America

A member of the Hungarian police
7 Where are the Jews forced to wait the entire day before deportation?
In an alleyway

In the synagogue

In the town hall

In the jail
8 What event initially caused Madame Schächter to lose her mind?
Her possessions were confiscated by the Hungarian police.

She was separated from her husband and two sons.

She was beaten by the Germans for trying to escape deportation by passing as Aryan.

Her mother was shot before her eyes by the Germans.
9 Which concentration camp does Eliezer arrive at first?
Auschwitz/Birkenau

Buna

Buchenwald

Treblinka
10 How old does Eliezer tell Dr. Mengele he is when he arrives at Birkenau?
Twelve

Twenty

Fourteen

Eighteen
11 What happens to the prisoners every time they enter a new camp?
They must go through a selection.

They must go through a gauntlet of prisoners who beat them brutally.

They must strip and shower.

They must submit to body searches.
12 What is the identification number tattooed on Eliezer?
A-7713

J-1106

B-103

X-11091
13 What is the name of the distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau?
Stein of Antwerp

Juliek

Reizel

Meir Katz
14 What do Eliezer's meals mostly consist of?
Unidentifiable meat

Goulash

Bread and soup

Gruel and beans
15 What is the name of Eliezer's younger sister?
Tzipora

Reizel

B

Hilda
16 What is Eliezer's most valuable possession that he tries to hold onto for as long as possible?
Vitamins

The Talmud

A knife

His gold crown
17 What unit is Eliezer put into when he first arrives at Buna?
The building unit

The cooking unit

The skilled workmen's unit

The music unit
18 What does Eliezer later find out about the French girl at Buna?
She was a Jew passing as Aryan.

She was a spy for the British.

She was a leader of the camp resistance unit.

She was a political dissident who posed a serious threat to the Nazi party.
19 Who forces Eliezer to give up his gold crown?
Idek the Kapo

Franek the foreman

The camp dentist

Akiba Drumer
20 Why does Idek have Eliezer whipped?
Eliezer walked in on him having sex.

Eliezer tried to protect his father from being beaten.

Eliezer asked for an extra ration of bread.

As a threat to the other prisoners to keep them orderly.
21 How do the prisoners react when an air raid occurs at Buna?
With panic

With apathy

With joy

With anger
22 During the air raid, only one prisoner dies. How does this casualty occur?
The prisoner dies after falling into a pot of soup.

The prisoner kills himself by running into the electric fences.

The prisoner is beaten to death by a guard while the air raid is going on outside.

The prisoner is caught outside and hit by loose shrapnel from a bomb.
23 What instrument does Juliek play?
Flute

Guitar

Violin

Piano
24 How do the SS guards execute prisoners who have committed crimes?
Beheading

Firing squad

Hanging

Gas chamber
25 Why was "the sad-eyed angel" executed?
He blew up a power plant.

He killed an SS guard.

He helped 25 prisoners escape.

He stole an extra plate of soup.

When the Hungarian police finally arrive to round up the Jews in the ghetto, what is Wiesel doing?

Wiesel was praying when the Hungarian police arrived in the ghetto.

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Night

by Elie Wiesel

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