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 Social Democrat

A foreigner

Homosexual

Jewish
2 What was the most important thing that Moché taught Eliezer?

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 strive to love God unconditionally.

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?

Enthusiasm

Resentment

Indifference

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

Rosh Hashanah

Passover

Yom Kippur

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

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

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

His father heard from the Jewish Council.

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

A member of the Hungarian police

Eliezer's uncle living in America

An old family servant
7 Where are the Jews forced to wait the entire day before deportation?

In the jail

In the town hall

In the synagogue

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

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

Her mother was shot before her eyes by the Germans.

Her possessions were confiscated by the Hungarian police.

She was separated from her husband and two sons.
9 Which concentration camp does Eliezer arrive at first?

Auschwitz/Birkenau

Treblinka

Buchenwald

Buna
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 go through a gauntlet of prisoners who beat them brutally.

They must go through a selection.

They must strip and shower.

They must submit to body searches.
12 What is the identification number tattooed on Eliezer?

A-7713

B-103

X-11091

J-1106
13 What is the name of the distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau?

Reizel

Meir Katz

Stein of Antwerp

Juliek
14 What do Eliezer's meals mostly consist of?

Bread and soup

Gruel and beans

Goulash

Unidentifiable meat
15 What is the name of Eliezer's younger sister?

Hilda

B

Reizel

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

Vitamins

A knife

His gold crown

The Talmud
17 What unit is Eliezer put into when he first arrives at Buna?

The skilled workmen's unit

The cooking unit

The building unit

The music unit
18 What does Eliezer later find out about the French girl at Buna?

She was a Jew passing as Aryan.

She was a leader of the camp resistance unit.

She was a spy for the British.

She was a political dissident who posed a serious threat to the Nazi party.
19 Who forces Eliezer to give up his gold crown?

Franek the foreman

Akiba Drumer

The camp dentist

Idek the Kapo
20 Why does Idek have Eliezer whipped?

Eliezer tried to protect his father from being beaten.

Eliezer asked for an extra ration of bread.

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

Eliezer walked in on him having sex.
21 How do the prisoners react when an air raid occurs at Buna?

With apathy

With joy

With anger

With panic
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 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.

The prisoner is caught outside and hit by loose shrapnel from a bomb.
23 What instrument does Juliek play?

Flute

Piano

Guitar

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

Hanging

Firing squad

Gas chamber

Beheading
25 Why was "the sad-eyed angel" executed?

He killed an SS guard.

He stole an extra plate of soup.

He blew up a power plant.

He helped 25 prisoners escape.

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