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Eliezer Wiesel, a Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, drew on his own experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald for his novel 'Night'. He subsequently wrote novels that further explored some of the same issues - 'Dawn' and 'Day' have been published with 'Night' as a single volume.
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  "Night" by Elie Wiesel Test Your Knowledge    
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This quiz is based on Elie Wiesel's autobiographical book, "Night", that tells of the horrors he encountered in various concentration camps. Elie Wiesel was awarded the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
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  The Books of Elie Wiesel   great trivia quiz  
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This quiz takes a look at the novels, plays, and memoirs of author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
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  10 Questions about "Night" by Elie Wiesel    
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Test you knowledge of "Night" by Elie Wiesel (My first quiz hope you like it) "Always desire to learn something useful." Sophocles
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  10 Question "Night" by Elie Wiesel Quiz    
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This quiz is about the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel. Enjoy!
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Elie Wiesel's 1976 book "Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits & Legends" discusses all of the following biblical figures except which?

From Quiz "The Books of Elie Wiesel"




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Elie Wiesel Trivia Questions
1. What Elie Wiesel autobiography began as a 900-page memoir written in Yiddish, but was later condensed, rewritten in French, and published in 1955 as "La Nuit" before being translated into English in 1960?

From Quiz The Books of Elie Wiesel

Answer: Night

"Night" became Elie Wiesel's most famous book, which is frequently assigned as required reading in English classes throughout the United States. The book has been translated into over thirty languages. "All Rivers Run to the Sea" is a memoir Elie Wiesel published in 1994. "Open Heart" was his last reminiscence, published in 2012. "The Jews of Silence" was a personal testimony he published in 1966.

2. Where did the author say he spent his childhood?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Sighet

Sighet, Transylvania, is a small town in present day Romania where Elie Wiesel was born and lived until he was taken away. Sighet, located in Transylvania, became part of Hungary in 1940 due to the Second Vienna Award. Before the war Transylvania was a key area of Jewish settlement, but most of the Jews living there were killed in the Holocaust.

3. How old is Elie at the beginning of the book?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: 12

When he was in the concentration camp, he lied about his age and said that he was 18.

4. What does Elie want to do that his father is opposed to?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: study the Kabbalah

Elie's father tells Elie that he is too young to study the Kabbalah. According to his father, he has to be thirty to begin to study the world of mysticism.

5. What is the name of the main character in the story?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Elie

Since this book is an autobiography the author himself is the main character. Moshe was talked about in the story as someone who help the author in his studies and Tripora and Tobias are the author's other siblings.

6. How many sisters did Elie have?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: 3

He never saw his youngest sister again, but he learned after the war that his two older sisters had survived.

7. In what point of view is the story?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: first person

First person is when the speaker is talking about themselves using "I". In the book, the narrator says "I was twelve." Second person view is when the author uses the word "you" to speak directly to the reader. This is normally found in self-help books. Third person is when the narrator is removed from the story using words like "he", "she", "they", "him", or "her". A primary source is something made by someone who directly experience the events talked about. The diary of Anne Frank is a primary source. Even though the book, "Night", can be considered a primary source, the question was asking its point of view.

8. Which camp were Elie and his family taken to first?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Birkenau

After they got off the train, they were sent to Birkenau, which was the reception center for Auschwitz.

9. What is the author's official name in the concentration camps?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: A-7713

Everyone who was sent to a work camp had a tattoo with their number on it so they could be identified easier by the Nazi officers. Though most people called him "Eliezer", that was not his official name. C3PO is a name from a popular movie.

10. What was the main food staple during Elie's stay in the concentration camps?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: bread and soup

In the concentration camps, the common foods were bread and soup and sometimes coffee for breakfast. Near the end, they weren't being fed at all for days at a time.

11. What memoir, published in 1999, was a follow-up to Elie Wiesel's earlier memoir "All Rivers Run to the Sea"?

From Quiz The Books of Elie Wiesel

Answer: And the Sea is Never Full

"Sailor and Fiddler" was the memoir of Herman Wouk, the author of "The Caine Mutiny," "War and Remembrance," and "This is My God." Elie Wiesel's "All Rivers Run to the Sea" was published in 1994. "The Trial of God" was a 1979 play inspired by Wiesel's personal observance of three Jews in Auschwitz who conducted a trial against God.

12. What was the name of the first concentration camp the author went to?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Auschwitz

After getting off the train the author arrived in Auschwitz a large concentration camp. Auschwitz was one of the largest concentration camps created by the Nazis during the holocaust it was made up of many different camps including Buna and Birkenau.

13. What body part did Elie injure in the book that made him have to stay at the hospital and have an operation?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: foot

If he would have stayed in the hospital, he would have been liberated.

14. What ironic words are inscribed on the doors of Auschwitz?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: "Work sets you free!"

The German words are "arbeit macht frei", which translates to "work sets you free". This is the first thing Elie sees of Auschwitz, which of course is a lie.

15. What did Madame Schachter say she saw while on the train?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: fire

Well on the train Madame Schachter screams about how she sees the fire but when others look there is nothing there. Madame Schachter and her ten-year-old son are in the same train as Elie and his dad. Her husband and other kids were taken by accident on a earlier train.

16. What was Juliek's hobby?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: musician

He played the violin.

17. Where was Elie assigned to work when he was at the Buna camp?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: in a warehouse

Elie and his father assigned to a warehouse for electrical equipment under a man named Idek.

18. What novel features a Jewish child whose parents uproot him by fleeing Czechoslovakia and then entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer?

From Quiz The Books of Elie Wiesel

Answer: The Time of the Uprooted

The family flees its home country in 1939. The novel features Gamaliel Friedman, who keeps his Jewish identity secret to survive persecution. As a consequence, he feels uprooted. He seeks out a home in Europe, but he is eventually forced to reconcile with his past. The novel was published in 2005.

19. What was the name of the person who died after he played the violin?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Juliek

Juliek died while playing a piece from Beethoven's concerto. He had been trapped under the dead and dying bodies and had somehow freed himself and started playing. The author describes this: "It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding the strings his hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again." ("Night") Juliek was later found dead lying next to his broken violin.

20. At the beginning of the book, how did Moshe the Beadle escape?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: he got shot in the leg and the soldiers thought he was dead

Moshe the Beadle tried to warn everyone to be careful about the Germans, but no one listened and they were all eventually sent to the concentration camps. Too bad they didn't listen!

21. When is the only time Elie does not enjoy his meal?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: when the young boy is hanged

When the young boy with "the face of a sad angel" was hanged, Elie remembers his soup tasting like corpses.

22. What novel, originally published in 1962 as "The Accident", was the final installment in Elie Wiesel's "Night Trilogy", which also included "Night" and "Dawn"?

From Quiz The Books of Elie Wiesel

Answer: Day

These three works (one autobiography, "Night", and two novellas, "Dawn" and "Day") are often sold in a single volume as "The Night Trilogy." Originally published in the U.K. as "The Accident", "Day" tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who, while recovering from a car accident, thinks back on his experiences in World War II.

23. What happens to the people who stay behind in the hospital?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: they were set free

The people who stayed behind in the hospital were freed by the Russian army. The author could have stayed in the hospital due to his injury but decided not to because he feared that the Nazis would kill all the sick before the Russians came.

24. What was the slogan for Auschwitz?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Work is Liberty

The weird thing is, no matter how hard you worked, they never let you go. Death must have been their idea of liberty.

25. What Elie Wiesel book features a character named Moshe, who admits to a ritualistic murder of a Christian boy, a murder he did not commit, and then swears the community to secrecy?

From Quiz The Books of Elie Wiesel

Answer: The Oath

Moshe makes the confession in a futile attempt to spare his people from persecution. Moshe makes the community swear that whoever survives the impending pogrom will never speak of the tragedy. There is one survivor, and he keeps his oath for fifty years.

26. What was the author's father sick with before he died?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Dysentery

The authors father died from dysentery which is an infection of the intestine, especially of the colon. This cased the author's father to be unable to leave his bunk when Nazis came to inspect. He just kept calling for the author to bring him water. Due to this, one of the Nazis hit him and he was later taken to the crematorium.

27. What did Madame Schachter see in the train car?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: fire

When they reached their first camp, they saw a furnace with flames pouring out of it. It was as if the lady had a premonition of what was coming.

28. What is Elie's inheritance from his father?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: a knife and spoon

When his father was picked during the selection, he gives Elie his only possesions: a knife and spoon. Later, Elie finds out that his father somehow escapes selection.

29. In "Dawn," we encounter an eighteen-year-old Holocaust survivor who joins the Zionist movement and is assigned to execute a captured English army officer. What is the name of that officer?

From Quiz The Books of Elie Wiesel

Answer: John Dawson

"Dawn" is the second installment in Elie Wiesel's "Night" trilogy. Elisha is recruited to join the movement and assigned the task of executing the captured English army officer John Dawson as an act of reprisal. Elisha struggles emotionally and morally with his impending task. When he meets the man, the first thing the officer asks is, "What time is it?" Elisha tells him it is not yet time, but he eventually carries out his assigned duty. When he completes the execution, he realizes that the act has changed him irrevocably.

30. What was the first thing the author thought about after he was freed?

From Quiz "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Food

The first thing the author thinks about when freed is food. He had very little food for days. He had nothing to eat for six day except for a bit of grass and potato peelings. When the last of the people were about to be evacuated by the Nazis, the resistance acted and took over. Soon the American army got there and the author writes a paragraph about it: "Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread. And even when we were no longer hungry there was still no one who thought of revenge." ("Night")

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