Second Period Unit Test – Night

Holocaust History

  1. What date was Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany? January 30, 1933
  2. In your own words, describe what Anti-Semitism means. Prejudice against Jews. Racism.
  3. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany? It forced them to make reparations, give-up territory, and reduce troop size.
  4. What was significant about Kristallnacht? It was the first physical assault against Jews
  5. What was the difference between a concentration camp and a death camp? Concentration camps worked prisoners to death while death camps killed outright.

Chapters 1-3

  1. What was the town that Elie is from? Sighet
  2. List the names of Elie’s sisters? Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora
  3. If you were on the train ride, explain what part of the ride would have frightened you the most? Use specific details. Being separated from family, not knowing where you were going, being closed-up with little air, the lady screaming, the people beating her.
  4. What was so important about Moishe’s story after his escape from the Hungarian police? It was a warning to the Jews of Sighet, and they could have been saved if they had listened.
  5. If Elie had been separated from his father when they arrived at Auschwitz, how do you predict this would have effected Elie during his time at the camp? Why? Since Elie always made sure he and his father were together, Elie probably would not have survived if he had been separated from his father. They looked-out for each other.

Chapters 4-5

  1. Why did the prisoners think Buna was better than Auschwitz? They were treated better, and they had jobs and more food.
  2. Who was the dentist that wanted to take out Elie’s crown? A Czechoslovakian prisoner.
  3. Elie becomes angry with his father for getting beat. Explain Elie’s reaction. Elie hated seeing his father beat, but he was helpless in stopping it. He becomes angry at his father for getting beat because he can do nothing to stop it.
  4. What did Elie hear a prisoner ask when the Pipel was hanged? “For God’s sake, where is God?”
  5. What could you have interpreted when Elie’s father gave him his inheritance? That they believed his father was going to be selected and sent to the gas chamber.

Chapters 6-7

  1. What was the purpose of the death marches? To move prisoners from the death camps, so that allied forces would not discover them. To get rid of evidence.
  2. Describe the conditions during the death march. It was freezing, and prisoners were not warmly dressed. Prisoners were forced to run for hours or be shot, which was difficult because they were already weak from starvation.
  3. Explain how Elie and his father seemed to reverse roles as father and son. As Elie’s father becomes weaker, Elie becomes more like the father taking care of a son.
  4. Explain one shocking event Elie witnesses during these chapters. The son who kills his father over some bread, the son who leaves his father.
  5. What occurred when bread was thrown into the cattle car Elie was in? Explain why this happened. They fought over it like animals. The prisoners were starving to death.

Chapter 8-9

  1. When Elie’s father becomes sick, what is wrong with him? He has dysentery
  2. What did Elie’s father want that only made him sicker? Water
  3. What did the guard suggest to Elie about his father’s food? That his ration of food was a waste.
  4. What happens to Elie when he finally gets food and why is this ironic? Elie gets his first taste of food and almost dies from food poisoning. It is ironic because he had been starved for a long time; yet, he almost dies from eating when he finally get food.
  5. What does Elie see in the mirror and why does it shock him? Answers will vary.