NIGHT Unit Test, Honors

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16 questions
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Choose the correct name below for each question. Some choices will be used more than once.

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
had three sisters
Elie Wiesel
performed medical experiments on Jews during the Holocaust
Sighet
revolts against God and refuses to bless His name
Madame Schâchter
town where the memior begins
Elie Wiesel
gave spoon and knife to son as his inheritance
Madame Schâchter
refuses to immigrate to Palestine
Mr. Wiesel
dies due to dysentary and a beating by an SS officer
Sighet
husband and two sons were deported before she was
Elie Wiesel
may have still been alive when carried to the crematorium
Idek
thinks there is a fire before anyone actually sees one
Elie Wiesel
performs two selections, one at Buna and another at Birkenau
Idek
all forgien Jews were the first to be expelled from this town
Mr. Wiesel
looks in mirror and sees a "corpse" looking back
Elie Wiesel
searches for his son at a "rest stop" during the death march from Buna
Dr. Mengele
author of the memior
Mr. Wiesel
has periodic fits of madness and beats Elie and his father
Rabbi Eliahou
is a kapo
Moshe the Beadle
is the only one from their family to survive the Holocaust
Elie Wiesel
A-7713
Mr. Wiesel
warns Jews of Sighet about the Gestapo massacring their race

2.35

On what day is Elie’s family deported from Sighet?

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At Auschwitz, what does Elie do to Stein?

2.35

In the concentration camp hospital, Elie’s neighbor remarks that he has lost his faith in everything except ...?

2.35

When Madame Schâchter sees the furnace, this is an instance of what literary device?

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Why do the Sighet Jews not believe Moshe the Beadle and think he has lost his mind when he warns them?

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What is the fate of the Jews if someone in their railway boxcar tries to escape as they go to Auschwitz?

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What invokes Elie to ponder the following: “Was there a single place here where you were not in danger of death?”

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At Auschwitz, a smiling, compassionate young Polish prisoner-overseer alleviates their terror with the first humane words Elie has heard in a long time. What does he say?

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According to Elie, who forsakes the prisoners?

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Why does Juliek play a fragment of a Beethoven concerto as he is crushed to death?

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“Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything.” What is Elie describing?

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In his last breath, Chlomo Wiesel said what in Hebrew, which means “God help you”?

2.35

What is A-7713?

10

Answer the following question in no less than 3 complete sentences.
Explain what is ironic about the following: “My father did not consider it so grim … ‘The yellow star? Oh, well what of it? You don’t die of it…”

10

Answer the following question in no less than 3 complete sentences.
In what way is the hanging of the young pipel symbolic of the Jewish race? (HINT: Think about what Elie says at the hanging)