Night Quizzes

Night Quiz 1

By Jennifer Moon · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed July 25, 2018

1 Moché the Beadle was deported from Sighet because he was:

A foreigner

Jewish

Homosexual

A Social Democrat
2 What was the most important thing that Moché taught Eliezer?

To strive to love God unconditionally.

To live through persecution by focusing on future revenge.

To try to ask God the right questions, not to try to find the right answers.

To always remember his own faults even though those of his persecutors may seem far worse in comparison.
3 What emotion best describes the attitude of the Jewish community in Sighet towards the Germans during the first five years of World War II?

Indifference

Enthusiasm

Terror

Resentment
4 During which Jewish holiday did the German persecution of the Jews in Sighet begin?

Passover

Yom Kippur

Rosh Hashanah

Hannukah
5 How did Eliezer learn that the Jews were to be deported?

His father heard from the Jewish Council.

An official notice was sent to all the families in the community.

He was stopped in the streets by a messenger from Budapest.

German soldiers forcibly drove families out of their homes.
6 Which of the following people did not try to warn Eliezer's family to try to escape?

Moché the Beadle

An old family servant

Eliezer's uncle living in America

A member of the Hungarian police
7 Where are the Jews forced to wait the entire day before deportation?

In the town hall

In the synagogue

In the jail

In an alleyway
8 What event initially caused Madame Schächter to lose her mind?

Her mother was shot before her eyes by the Germans.

She was beaten by the Germans for trying to escape deportation by passing as Aryan.

She was separated from her husband and two sons.

Her possessions were confiscated by the Hungarian police.
9 Which concentration camp does Eliezer arrive at first?

Treblinka

Buchenwald

Buna

Auschwitz/Birkenau
10 How old does Eliezer tell Dr. Mengele he is when he arrives at Birkenau?

Fourteen

Twelve

Eighteen

Twenty
11 What happens to the prisoners every time they enter a new camp?

They must submit to body searches.

They must go through a gauntlet of prisoners who beat them brutally.

They must go through a selection.

They must strip and shower.
12 What is the identification number tattooed on Eliezer?

A-7713

J-1106

X-11091

B-103
13 What is the name of the distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau?

Juliek

Reizel

Meir Katz

Stein of Antwerp
14 What do Eliezer's meals mostly consist of?

Bread and soup

Goulash

Unidentifiable meat

Gruel and beans
15 What is the name of Eliezer's younger sister?

Hilda

Reizel

Tzipora

B
16 What is Eliezer's most valuable possession that he tries to hold onto for as long as possible?

His gold crown

The Talmud

Vitamins

A knife
17 What unit is Eliezer put into when he first arrives at Buna?

The building unit

The music unit

The cooking unit

The skilled workmen's unit
18 What does Eliezer later find out about the French girl at Buna?

She was a spy for the British.

She was a political dissident who posed a serious threat to the Nazi party.

She was a leader of the camp resistance unit.

She was a Jew passing as Aryan.
19 Who forces Eliezer to give up his gold crown?

The camp dentist

Franek the foreman

Idek the Kapo

Akiba Drumer
20 Why does Idek have Eliezer whipped?

Eliezer walked in on him having sex.

As a threat to the other prisoners to keep them orderly.

Eliezer tried to protect his father from being beaten.

Eliezer asked for an extra ration of bread.
21 How do the prisoners react when an air raid occurs at Buna?

With apathy

With anger

With panic

With joy
22 During the air raid, only one prisoner dies. How does this casualty occur?

The prisoner kills himself by running into the electric fences.

The prisoner is caught outside and hit by loose shrapnel from a bomb.

The prisoner dies after falling into a pot of soup.

The prisoner is beaten to death by a guard while the air raid is going on outside.
23 What instrument does Juliek play?

Flute

Violin

Guitar

Piano
24 How do the SS guards execute prisoners who have committed crimes?

Beheading

Hanging

Firing squad

Gas chamber
25 Why was "the sad-eyed angel" executed?

He blew up a power plant.

He killed an SS guard.

He stole an extra plate of soup.

He helped 25 prisoners escape.

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