SparkNotes: Night: Quiz

1. What town do Eliezer and his family come from?

(A) Gleiwitz

(B) Sighet

(C) Haifa

(D) Budapest

2. What specifically does Eliezer recruit Moshe the Beadle to teach him?

(A) The Cabbala

(B) The Talmud

(C) The Torah

(D) The Haftorah

3. What is Eliezer’s oldest sister’s name?

(A) Béa

(B) Hilda

(C) Tzipora

(D) Esther

4. Upon his return to the village, What does Moshe the Beadle try to do?

(A) Break into Eliezer’s home

(B) Spy for the Nazis

(C) Become a Rabbi

(D) Warn the villagers about the Nazi threat

5. After being evacuated from their original homes, where are the Jews of Sighet first sent?

(A) To Auschwitz/Birkenau

(B) To a ghetto within Sighet

(C) To Czechoslovakia

(D) To Buna

6. On what day is Eliezer’s family deported from Sighet?

(A) Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year

(B) Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement

(C) The first day of Passover, the commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt

(D) The Sabbath, the day of rest

7. On the train from Sighet, of what does Madame Schächter has visions?

(A) A gas chamber

(B) Israel

(C) A furnace

(D) Angels of liberation

8. What do several men on the train do when they are unable to endure Madame Schächter’s screaming?

(A) Stuff their ears with cotton

(B) Beat her senseless

(C) Jump off the train

(D) Persuade her son to keep her quiet

9. From whom is Eliezer separated at Birkenau?

(A) His mother and three sisters

(B) His father

(C) Both his parents

(D) His entire family

10. During the first selection at Birkenau, what do Eliezer and his father, respectively, pretend their ages are?

(A) Fifteen and fifty

(B) Fifteen and forty

(C) Eighteen and forty

(D) Eighteen and fifty

11. Who is the infamous Nazi doctor presiding over the Auschwitz arrivals?

(A) Dr. Mankle

(B) Dr. Mengele

(C) Dr. Menglein

(D) Dr. Maunklietz

12. What is the Kaddish?

(A) The Jewish prayer for the dead

(B) A leader of the Jewish community

(C) The Hebrew translation of “The Holocaust”

(D) The book of Jewish mysticism

13. In Birkenau, who beats Eliezer’s father?

(A) Meir Katz

(B) A gypsy Kapo

(C) An S.S. guard

(D) A horde of prisoners

14. At Auschwitz, wh recognizes Eliezer and his father?

(A) Their relative from Antwerp, named Stein

(B) A French Jewish woman posing as an Aryan

(C) Their rabbi from Sighet

(D) An old customer of Eliezer’s father

15. At Buna, with whom is Eliezer placed in a block?

(A) Electricians

(B) Masons

(C) Farmers

(D) Musicians

16. What is Idek?

(A) Eliezer’s Kapo in the electrical equipment warehouse

(B) A violinist who befriends Eliezer

(C) Yosi’s brother

(D) An old Jewish mystic

17. To whom does Eliezer lose the gold crown on his tooth?

(A) Franek

(B) Idek

(C) Akiba Drumer

(D) A Jewish dentist from Czechoslovakia

18. What do the Gestapo do after an instance of sabotage at Buna?

(A) Arrest Eliezer

(B) Torture Eliezer’s father

(C) Hang a young child

(D) Close down Buna

19. After Akiba Drumer’s death, what do Eliezer and the other prisoners do?

(A) Decorate his grave

(B) Forget to say the prayer for the dead

(C) Rebel against the Nazis

(D) Secretly light memorial candles in his honor

20. In January 1945, what sort of infection does Eliezer contract?

(A) Mouth

(B) Thumb

(C) Stomach

(D) Foot

21. In the concentration camp hospital, Eliezer’s neighbor remarks he has lost faith in everything except what?

(A) God

(B) Death

(C) Hitler

(D) Eliezer

22. During the long run after Buna, what does Eliezer say was the only thing that kept him from giving up?

(A) His faith in God

(B) His desire for justice

(C) His father’s presence

(D) A sense of pride

23. In the shed, taking a brief break from the run, what does Eliezer pray for?

(A) For the dead

(B) For an end to the war

(C) For the strength to never abandon his father for his own benefit

(D) For a quick end to their long journey

24. In the barracks at Gleiwitz, what does Eliezer hear?

(A) His mother’s voice

(B) The quiet prayers of all the Jewish prisoners

(C) Rabbi Eliahou’s son mercilessly berating his father

(D) Juliek playing Beethoven on the violin

25. Where does Eliezer’s father die?

(A) Gleiwitz

(B) Buchenwald

(C) Birkenau

(D) Buna