TAKE-HOME QUIZ FOR NIGHT
Most of these questions came from the entire book. However, research may be needed for a few of the harder
questions. This is a take-at-home quiz, and is due by the end of coverage of Elie Wiesel and his book. Please
number 1-50 on a separate piece of paper, and then write A, B, C, or D next to each number. Please pardon
my spelling errors since there may be slight differences between the books and study materials!
1. What weather occurred during the entire evacuation march?
A. Rain
B. Snow
C. Tornado
D. Hurricane
2. What did Elie Wiesel inherit from his father?
A. Ring
B. Last Will & Testament
D. Key
C. Knife & Spoon
3. What language did Elie Wiesel read and write well? In this language he wrote the preliminary version of Night,
which was translated later into other languages.
A. Romanian
B. Russian
C. German
D. Yiddish
4. Who liberated the men in the hospital?
A. Americans
B. Russians
C. Bulgarians
D. French
5. What is the Jewish New Year called?
A. Hanukkah
B. Yom Kippur
C. Rosh Hashanah
D. Passover
6. The Germans arrested the Jewish leaders on the 7th day of what holiday?
A. Hanukkah
B. Yom Kippur
C. Rosh Hashanah
D. Passover
7. The Germans set up 2 of these in Sighet after the Jewish leaders were arrested:
A. Stalags
B. Slums
C. Concentration camps
D. Ghettos
8. According to one Jew in the camp, who was the only one to keep his promises?
A. Himmler
B. Dr. Mengele
C. Eichmann
D. Hitler
9. Who thought that God was testing the Jews?
A. Franek
B. Elie Wiesel
C. Akiba Drumer
D. Hitler
10. What once tasted like corpses?
A. Stew
B. Soup
C. Moldy bratwurst
D. Meat pies
11. Who was the Polish boy trampled during evacuation?
A. Prakseda
B. Franciszek
C. Czeslaw
D. Zalman
12. According to the book, this place had a sign that translated into English means “Work Is Liberty!”
A. Auschwitz
B. Bergen-Belsen
C. Buna
D. Stalag
13. Elie had to have surgery on his:
A. Hand
B. Foot
C. Hip
D. Nose
14. Who offered Elie’s family safe refuge in his/her village?
A. Moishe
B. Tsiporah/Tzipora
C. Livni
D. Maria
15. What does Yom Kippur mean when translated into English?
A. Day of Giving Gifts
B. Day of Rest
C. Day of Atonement
D. Day of Fasting
16. The prisoners ate a lot of:
A. Sauerkraut
B. Soup & bread
C. Moldy cheese
D. Moldy bratwurst
17. Woman who had a vision of the furnaces:
A. Hilda
B. Schachter
C. Tsiporah/Tzipora
D. Bea/Beatrice
18. Who played violin in the concentration camp?
A. Franek
B. Chlomo
C. Juliek
D. Bea/Beatrice
19. What happened to that person and the violin?
A. Shot
B. Burned
C. Dumped in water
D. Crushed
20. What composer’s music did that person play on the violin?
A. Bach
B. Wagner
C. Strauss
D. Beethoven
21. What composer’s music did the Nazis prohibit?
A. Bach
B. Wagner
D. Beethoven
C. Strauss
22. What composer’s music did Hitler and the Nazis especially like?
A. Tchaikovsky
B. Wagner
C. Rimski-Korsakov
D. Sousa
23. In the book, what symbol did Jewish people have to wear in the concentration camps?
A. Swastika
B. Triangle
C. Star
D. Cross
24. In the Discovery Channel video, what symbol did gay people have to wear in the concentration camps?
A. Swastika
B. Triangle
C. Star
D. Cross
25. In the Discovery Channel video, who tried to use mummies and archeology to prove “Aryan superiority”?
A. Dr. Mengele
B. Martin Bormann
C. Heinrich Himmler
D. Erwin Rommel
26. What is the name of the youngest of Elie Wiesel’s brothers & sisters?
A. Hilda
B. Schachter
C. Tsiporah/Tzipora
D. Bea/Beatrice
27. What is the name of the German Jew who headed the block at Buna?
A. Wernher
B. Alphonse
C. Wilhelm
D. Erich
28. Elie said he wanted his father and family to move to:
A. Switzerland
B. Russia
D. America
C. Palestine
29. The German Security Police in the book were called the:
A. STASI
B. GESTAPO
C. SECURITATE
D. K.G.B.
30. The book said Elie Wiesel’s father died from:
A. Cholera
B. Bubonic Plague
C. Dysentery
D. Typhoid Fever
31. Where did Elie Wiesel’s father die?
A. Auschwitz
B. Buchenwald
C. Bergen/Belsen
D. Buna
32. Who tried to warn the Jews in Sighet, but then nobody listened?
A. Franek
B. Schachter
C. Moishe
D. Idek
33. Elie chose not to do what on Yom Kippur?
A. Pray
B. Sing
D. Fast
C. Sleep
34. Elie Wiesel saw what Nazi visiting in one of the concentration camps?
A. Himmler
B. Rommel
C. Dr. Mengele
D. Hitler
35. According to the book, whose tank was seen at the gates of Buchenwald?
A. Russian
B. German
C. Romanian
D. American
36. What movement rescued the prisoners at Buchenwald?
A. Inductance
B. Impedance
C. Resistance
D. Reactance
37. Who attacked Jewish shops and synagogues?
A. Capitalists
B. Communists
C. Fascists
D. Libertarians
38. According to the book, which police did Elie Wiesel hate first?
A. Romanian
B. Austrian
C. Hungarian
D. German
39. In the book, Mr. Wiesel did not recognize this cousin:
A. Franken
B. Stein
C. Heisenberg
D. Reizel
40. According to the book, what was “the gravest danger”?
A. Starvation
B. Diarrhea
C. Russian Red Army
D. Selection
41. Elie became fascinated and obsessed with this idea during the evacuation:
A. Birth
B. Growth
C. Life
D. Death
42. The marchers’ destination:
A. Buna
B. Gleiwitz
C. Auschwitz
D. Bergen-Belsen
43. The men had to clean what before they evacuated?
A. Railroad cars
B. Latrines
C. Block
D. Furnaces
44. The men recited what prayer for themselves?
A. Bris
B. Mazel Tov
C. Oy Vey
D. Kaddish
45. According to the book, Sighet, where Elie grew up, was located in what regional area?
A. Hungary
B. Russia
C. Transylvania
D. Ukraine
46. According to the book, who was the Kapo who had bouts of madness?
A. Hungary
B. Idek
C. Romania
D. Ukraine
47. Today, in which country is Sighet (Sighetu Marmaţiei) mainly located?
A. Russia
B. Romania
C. Hungary
D. Ukraine
48. Today, Sighet borders which country to the north?
A. Hungary
B. Ukraine
D. Russia
C. Romania
49. According to Google Maps, what map feature runs along the border (more or less, but sometimes on the north
side and sometimes on the south side of the border) near Sighet (Sighetu Marmaţiei)?
A. Carpathian Mountains
B. 50-foot-tall Border Wall
C. Autobahn Highway
D. Tisa River
50. What popular TV series satirized and made jokes about Nazis and German concentration camps?
A. Wake Me When the War is Over
B. Stalag 17
C. Slaughterhouse 5
D. Hogan’s Heroes
Revised 25 January 2011