Night by Elie Wiesel Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A veteran prisoner advises Eliezer and his father to change their stated ages before selection. What ages are they told to claim?
Eliezer should say 16, and his father should say 45
Eliezer should say 18, and his father should say 40
Eliezer should say 21, and his father should say 35
Eliezer should say 15, and his father should say 50
2. An exhausted father searches for his missing son during the forced march. Eliezer realizes the son deliberately ran ahead to escape the burden. Who is the father?
Rabbi Eliahu
Meir Katz
Stein of Antwerp
Akiba Drumer
3. After the prisoners reach the barracks at Gleiwitz, whose violin playing briefly rises above the suffering around them?
Moshe the Beadle’s
Rabbi Eliahu’s
Juliek’s
Stein’s
4. Which relative meets Eliezer and his father at Auschwitz and seeks news about his wife and children?
Rabbi Eliahu
Akiba Drumer
Stein of Antwerp
Meir Katz
5. Which character notices Eliezer’s gold crown and pressures him to surrender it by tormenting Eliezer’s father?
Idek
Franek
Meir Katz
Akiba Drumer
6. A camp overseer is known for unpredictable fits of violence, and Eliezer later witnesses him with a young Polish woman. Who is he?
Franek
The French girl’s foreman
The dentist
Idek
7. What is the final word Eliezer hears his father call out before his death?
A prayer for the dead
Eliezer’s name
The name of Eliezer’s mother
A request for his coat
8. Beyond referring to time of day, what does the recurring image of night most strongly represent in the memoir?
The secrecy that allows prisoners to plan an organized escape
The peace Eliezer finds whenever the camp becomes quiet
The uncertainty of traveling through unfamiliar European landscapes
Spiritual darkness, terror, and the destruction of Eliezer’s former world
9. At the memoir’s end, Eliezer looks into a mirror after liberation. What does he say looks back at him?
A corpse
An image of his father in his own face
A stranger wearing a prisoner’s uniform
A frightened child he barely recognizes
10. During the transport toward Auschwitz, who repeatedly cries out that she sees fire?
Madame Schächter
Eliezer’s mother
Tzipora
Hilda
11. Which prisoner loses hope after concluding that God is no longer with the prisoners, is selected, and asks the others to recite Kaddish for him?
Juliek
Akiba Drumer
Idek
Franek
12. Who narrates Night and recounts his experiences as a Jewish teenager during the Holocaust?
Akiba Drumer
Moshe the Beadle
Eliezer
Rabbi Eliahu
13. Which member of Eliezer’s immediate family is his younger sister, last seen leaving with their mother after the arrival at Birkenau?
Bea
Hilda
Madame Schächter
Tzipora
14. Which character teaches Eliezer about Jewish mysticism, survives an early deportation, and returns to Sighet to warn the community?
Stein of Antwerp
Franek
Meir Katz
Moshe the Beadle
15. On the train to Buchenwald, which physically strong family acquaintance protects Eliezer from an attacker but later admits that he can no longer endure?
Meir Katz
Rabbi Eliahu
Stein of Antwerp
Moshe the Beadle
16. As Eliezer’s father grows weaker, how does their relationship most clearly change?
They agree to separate so each can travel faster
His father becomes a camp official who can protect Eliezer
Eliezer increasingly becomes his father’s protector and caregiver
Eliezer depends on his father to obtain extra food for him