Night Unit Test Study Guide
Name:______Date:______Period:______
Characters: Identify each character with a brief description of who they are.
Elie Wiesel:
Chlomo:
Tzipora:
Moche the Beadle:
Juliek:
Meir Katz:
Rabbi Eliahou:
Place the camp names in order of which Elie and his father visited.
BunaGleiwitzBirkenauBuchenwald Aushwitz
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Skills
_____1) The gate of Auschwitz, a concentration camp, reads “Work is Liberty”
A. personification
B. irony
C. metaphor
_____2) Elie lets Franek to take his gold tooth in order to receive less severe treatment in the camp. Then, Franek is transferred soon after and Elie is treated poorly again.
A. irony
B. metaphor
C. direct characterization
_____3) No one believes Madame Schachter when she screams her warnings about fire. When they arrive at the camp, there is a fire.
A. direct characterization
B. symbolism
C. irony
_____4) “Never shall I forget these things, even if I’m condemned to live as long as God himself. Never” (22).
A. simile
B. hyperbole
C. alliteration
_____5) “An infinitely long train…” (65).
A. hyperbole
B. alliteration
C. indirect characterization
_____6) “The night was long and never ending” (66).
A. metaphor
B. hyperbole
C. simile
_____7) “The ghetto awoke” (8).
A. personification
B. simile
C. alliteration
_____8) “My throat was dry, the words choked in it, paralyzing my lips” (9).
A. metaphor
B. symbolism
C. personification
_____9) “An icy wind enveloped us” (24).
A. personification
B. alliteration
C. metaphor
_____10) “[The bell] gave me orders, and I automatically obeyed” (49).
A. direct characterization
B. symbolism
C. personification
_____11) “All around me, death was moving in, silently, without violence” (60).
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
_____12) “Suddenly, his eyes would become blank, nothing but two open wounds, two pits of terror” (51).
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
_____13) “Juliek’s soul [was] the bow. He was playing his life” (63).
A. metaphor
B. alliteration
C. irony
_____14) “It was like a page torn from some story book…” (10).
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. alliteration
_____15) “She looked like a withered tree in a cornfield” (16).
A. alliteration
B. hyperbole
C. simile
_____16) Madame Schachter yelling “fire” on the way to the concentration camp is an example of
A. direct characterization
B. foreshadowing
C. alliteration
_____17) “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever” (22).
A. alliteration
B. symbolism
C. simile
_____18) “I had never heard a sound so pure. In such a silence” (63).
A. symbolism
B. alliteration
C. personification
_____19) “I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival” (71).
A. personification
B. metaphor
C. alliteration
_____20) “She was about fifty… Her husband and two eldest sons had been deported…The separation had completely broken her” (15).
A. direct characterization
B. indirect characterization
_____21) “Meir Katz [was] the strong man, the most robust of us all” (69).
A. direct characterization
B. indirect characterization
_____22) “My parents ran a shop…. They said my place was at school” (23).
A. direct characterization
B. indirect characterization
_____23) “I threw myself on top of his body….I slapped him” (66).
A. direct characterization
B. indirect characterization
_____24) “He began to talk faster and faster, as though he were afraid….he wouldn’t listen to me” (72).
A. direct characterization
B. indirect characterization
_____25) Night is used as ______in the story.
A. symbolism
B. characterization
C. foreshadowing
Vocabulary in Context
_____26) “Terror was stronger than hunger. Suddenly, we saw the door of Block 37 open imperceptibly.”
Imperceptibly means: a) easily b) noisilyc) impossiblyd) scarily
_____27) “I woke from my apathy just at the moment when two men came up to my father.”
Apathy means: a) emotionless b) slumberc) appearanced) sickness
_____28) “I could see that he was still breathing—spasmodically.”
Spasmodically means: a) peacefullyb) without movementc) fitfuld) asthmatic
_____29) “I’m obliged, therefore, to make it very clear to him once and for all.”
Obliged means: a) chosenb) horrifiedc) purposefullyd) honestly
_____30) “You’re wallowing in your own despair, you fool!”
Wallowing means: a) indulgingb) getting revengec) sunkend) partying
31) Explain the difference between a memoir and an autobiography. (Bullet point list is fine)
32). An author’s purpose is the author’s reason for writing a work. List the 4-5 reasons an author may write something.
Internal Conflict
Definition:
Example:
External Conflict
Definition:
Example: