Night Chapter 1 Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. What role does Moishe the Beadle take in Eliezer’s early spiritual life?
He persuades Eliezer to abandon religious study
He becomes Eliezer’s guide in studying the Kabbalah
He teaches Eliezer in his father’s shop
He prepares Eliezer to become the town’s rabbi
2. Why is Moishe initially deported from Sighet?
He is accused of organizing armed resistance
He publicly refuses to wear the yellow star
He is classified as a foreign Jew
He is selected because he has no occupation
3. Eliezer’s father says that a yellow star is not lethal. In light of what follows, what is the strongest interpretation of this moment?
It creates dramatic irony by showing how an early restriction’s danger is underestimated
It proves that the yellow-star order has no effect on later events
It shows that Eliezer’s father already knows the full deportation plan
It marks the point when the family decides to resist openly
4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, where does Eliezer live with his family?
Sighet, in Transylvania
Budapest, the Hungarian capital
Warsaw, in occupied Poland
Auschwitz, in Upper Silesia
5. Why does life inside the first ghetto briefly seem tolerable to many residents?
They have received guarantees that deportation is impossible
They are free to travel to nearby villages during the day
They are protected by foreign soldiers stationed at the gates
The enclosed community develops its own routines, encouraging an illusion of normality
6. Which situation best describes Eliezer and his family at the close of Chapter 1?
They are hiding in a village outside Sighet
They are living under curfew in the large ghetto
They are waiting at the station for passenger coaches
They have been forced into an overcrowded cattle car with other deportees
7. How does Moishe survive the mass killing that he later describes?
A German officer secretly releases him
He hides inside an abandoned train car
He is wounded and left for dead
He crosses the border before the prisoners are shot
8. What does Eliezer especially want to study despite his father’s belief that he is too young?
Modern European history
The Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism
German language and literature
Medicine and human anatomy
9. Before being taken to the railway station, where are Eliezer and the other remaining deportees forced to spend their final waiting period?
In the synagogue
Inside the family shop
At the home of Moishe the Beadle
In the town hospital
10. When Moishe returns to warn the people of Sighet, how do most of them respond?
They immediately begin organizing an escape
They ask him to lead an armed defense group
They report his story to international authorities
They dismiss his account or assume he has lost his mind
11. A former family servant offers the Wiesels a hiding place in her village. Why does the family ultimately remain together in Sighet?
The offer is withdrawn before they can decide
They believe the village has already been destroyed
The father will not leave, and the children refuse the option of separating from their parents
Eliezer chooses to hide there alone, but his father stops him
12. Across Chapter 1, which repeated pattern helps the danger advance without decisive community action?
Residents receive accurate official information but deliberately conceal it
Warnings and escalating measures are repeatedly explained away with hopeful assumptions
Competing resistance groups prevent families from choosing a plan
The community is unaware that German forces have entered Hungary
13. What initially makes some residents underestimate the danger posed by the German soldiers in Sighet?
The soldiers initially appear polite and restrained while lodging in local homes
The soldiers allow every family to leave for Palestine
The soldiers remain outside town and avoid the residents
The soldiers announce that all restrictions are temporary
14. Which event in spring 1944 most directly overturns the community’s hope that the war will pass them by?
Eliezer’s father closes the family shop
German forces enter Hungary and reach Sighet
Moishe stops speaking about his experience
The Jewish community elects a new council
15. During the removal of residents from the ghetto, which detail most clearly reveals the role of the Hungarian police?
They arrange safe passage to neutral territory
They distribute food and water before the march
They help families conceal valuables from the Germans
They drive people forward and strike those who cannot keep pace
16. Which development comes after orders involving yellow stars, curfews, and restrictions on public life?
The restrictions are withdrawn after Passover
The German troops permanently leave Sighet
The Jewish residents are confined within ghettos
The residents regain access to their confiscated valuables