Question

1.What prevents people from understanding the events that occurred at Auschwitz, according to the author?
People have too much respect for the survivors and their families to ask painful questions.
People cannot remember events that happened so long ago.
People have nothing so terrible in their experience to which to compare the events.
People are not allowed access to the facts about the events.

Answer 1

2. Early in the memoir, the author recalls Mrs. Schächter’s frightening vision of fire, which foreshadows
the death in the camp of Mr. Schäcther.
the years of misery Eliezer will endure in the camps.
the long-awaited defeat of Hitler by the Allies.
the furnaces at the camps where many Jews will die.

3. Why does Elie Wiesel write Night?
He writes it so he doesn’t forget.

He writes it for his own children.

He writes it to bear witness and to tell a story that must be told.

He writes it because he promised his father he would do so.





4. Early in the book, the author says, “We realized then that we were not staying in Hungary. Our eyes opened. Too late.” The statement “Our eyes opened” is a way of saying that they.
had more light by which to see better.
found themselves in an entirely new place.
now knew that they were too weak to resist.
now understood that Moishe had told the truth.

5. During the march to Buchenwald, the Rabbi’s son abandons his father because he
has lost his faith in God but does not want his father to know.
thinks his father’s chances of survival will be better if he leaves.
is tired of the burden of caring for his father.
loses his father in the crowds of marching prisoners.

6. The sign that reads “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” at the entrance to Auschwitz is ironic because
the Nazi guards do most of the hard work at the camp.
hard-working prisoners could gain their freedom but not that of their families.
the Nazis do not regard the prisoners as capable of hard work.
death, not freedom, is often the result of the hard work the prisoners must do.