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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Moishe the Beadle's economic status?

2. Who is the first person to be introduced in the book, Night?

3. How did the prisoners in Chapter 2, have to arrange themselves on the train?

4. In Chapter 4, what did the foreman want Wiesel to do?

5. According to the German officer in Chapter 2, what happened to any Jews who kept their valuables?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, how did Wiesel describe the tent leader?

2. How did Moshe escape being killed when he was deported?

3. In Chapter 2 after arriving at the Auschwitz station, what did two men learn when they were sent to get water?

4. What happened at the barrack where Wiesel and his father were taken in Chapter 3?

5. What type of work was Wiesel given to do in Chapter 4?

6. What did Buna look like when Wiesel arrived in Chapter 4?

7. What did Madame Schachter scream about shortly after the train stopped and how did that relate to what the prisoners saw when they got off the train cars?

8. How did life deteriorate for the Jews after the Hungarian police arrested the Jewish community leaders during Passover?

9. How did Wiesel describe Dr. Mengele?

10. Why was Wiesel able to keep his new pair of shoes in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Adversity can either strengthen or weaken a person. Considering Wiesel, his father, and other characters, was it more common for the adversity they suffered to make them stronger or weaker?

Essay Topic 2

Wiesel and his father had a symbiotic relationship. What is a symbiotic relationship? In what way did the two of them provide support and nurture for one another? How did their symbiotic relationship benefit them as they suffered in the concentration camp? How did the relationship keep the two alive?

Essay Topic 3

The mood of the book does not change when the prisoners are liberated. How do the prisoners respond when they are freed? Does their emotional state change when they know they are free? Why are they still suffering, even though they are no longer prisoners? Why do the prisoners not show joy and elation at being rescued?

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