Night by Elie Wiesel
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Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, pages 85-115
1. While running, an “idea” begins to fascinate Wiesel. What is the idea?
A) It is death.
B) It is escape.
C) It is murdering the soldiers.
D) It is finding his mother
2. What does Wiesel realize about Rabbi Eliahou's son just after the evacuation?
A) The son is dead and the Rabbi cannot admit it.
B) The son has been trying to lose his father as the men are all running.
C) The son has escaped and does not take his father.
D) The son betrays his father to get extra bread for himself.
3. As Wiesel and the others are being forced to march in the cold and snow, he says, “We were the masters
of nature, the masters of the world….” What does Wiesel mean by this?
A) They have transcended life because they have been pushed mentally, emotionally and physically
beyond anything else the Nazi’s can do to them.
B) Because they have marched in the cold and snow before, they are able to handle any conditions.
C) Wiesel and the others feel like they are going to die any moment.
D) Due to lack of food and nutrition, Wiesel is hallucinating that he is the master of the world.
4. Before Juliek dies, what does he do and why?
5. Leaving Gleiwitz and boarding a train, what do the men have to do when the train makes periodic stops?
6. What happens when a crowd of workmen toss bread into the railcar?
A) The snowbirds fly down and snatch the bread before the inmates can get to the pieces of bread.
B) The inmates claw and fight each other to the death to get a piece of bread.
C) The SS guards shoot the workmen for feeding the inmates without their permission.
D) The inmates are too tired and weak to retrieve a piece of bread.
7. What is understated about the story in number six?
A) Wiesel is tired of eating bread and eats snow instead.
B) In retrospect, Wiesel thinks the story is humorous.
C) Wiesel is sixteen years old.
D) Wiesel emphatically states his disgust for the workmen and the SS.
8. Why is it ironic that Meir Katz dies?
A) He is a favorite of the Kapos.
C) He is not really Jewish
B) He once was very big and strong but now he has given up.
D) His son is waiting for him at Buchenwald.
9. How many men start out in the train? How many are left when they arrived at Buchenwald?
A) Ten thousand men start out. Five hundred are left. B) Three hundred start out. Fifty are left.
C) Four thousand start out. Two thousand are left. D) One hundred men start out. About twelve are left.
10. What happens to Mr. Wiesel, Elie's father?
A) He gets sick from dysentery, but he recovers.
B) He finally stands up to Idek and punches him after the American troops arrive.
C) He dies from dysentery during the night, and his body is gone by morning.
D) He is shot trying to escape from one of the train stops.
11. While in Buchenwald, what is Wiesel's only desire?
A) He wants to eat.
C) He wants to find out if his mother and sisters were alive.
B) He wants to sleep.
D) He wants to take a bath.
12. A few days after being liberated and surviving, what is ironic about Wiesel’s freedom?
A) He seeks revenge against the guards that beat him and his father.
B) He travels back to Sighet on a train.
C) He stays in Germany with the other survivors to start legal charges against the Nazis.
D) He spends two weeks in a hospital and almost dies from some form of poisoning.