Name: __________________________________________________ Do you have a strong understanding of the Holocaust? ______________________ (It’s okay to say no.)
Night: Quiz 1
Read each question carefully.
Holocaust Terminology
1. Which word refers the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or
ethnic group?
A. Holocaust
B. genocide
C. pogrom
D. fascism
2. Which word refers to total destruction?
A. annihilation
B. genocide
C. Holocaust
D. fascism
3. Which word refers to the state-sponsored systematic persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany and
its collaborators between 1933 and 1945?
A. annihilation
B. genocide
C. Holocaust
D. fascism
4. Which word refers to the act of honoring the memory of or serving as a memorial to someone or
something?
A. fascism
B. totalitarianism
C. commemoration D. annihilation
5. Which word refers to ill-feeling or hatred specifically toward Jewish people?
A. annihilation B. prejudice
C. anti-Semitism
D. genocide
Comprehension Questions
6. From which point of view was the book Night written?
A. first person B. second person
C. third limited
D. third omniscient
7. What did Elie Wiesel want to study at the beginning of the book?
A. The Old Testament B. Yom Kippur
C. Kabbalah D. Rosh Hashanah
8. Who helped Elie with his studies?
A. his father
C. the neighbor
B. Moishe the Beadle D. his sister
9. Where were the Jews of Sighet first taken after the Germans arrive?
A. concentration camps
C. Hungarian prison
B. ghetto
D. German prison