Q 01/05

Night ends with Wiesel looking into a mirror for the first time since the ghetto and seeing what?

A) A corpse

B) A stranger

C) His father

D) A child

Answer · why

A) A corpse

A corpse gazed back from the depths of the mirror, Wiesel wrote, and the look in its eyes never left him; he was in hospital, getting over an illness ...

Q 02/05

Night opens a Wiesel trilogy that moves from darkness to light, completed by which two later volumes?

A) Dawn and Noon

B) Dawn and Day

C) Morning and Day

D) Sunrise and Morning

Answer · why

B) Dawn and Day

Dawn and Day complete the sequence, which follows the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall; both are novels, unlike the memoir that op...

Q 03/05

Whose 2006 book-club pick sent a new translation of Night to No. 1 on the New York Times paperback list?

A) Kelly Ripa

B) Katie Couric

C) Oprah Winfrey

D) Ellen DeGeneres

Answer · why

C) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey chose Night in January 2006, straight after her previous pick, James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces, was exposed as partly fabric...

Q 04/05

For how long after the war did Wiesel refuse to write about or discuss what he had lived through?

A) One year

B) Five years

C) Twenty years

D) Ten years

Answer · why

D) Ten years

Ten years of silence followed the war, during which Wiesel worked as a journalist writing in French while also teaching Hebrew and serving as a choirm...

Q 05/05

Which director approached Wiesel hoping to turn Night into a feature film, only to be refused?

A) Orson Welles

B) Stanley Kubrick

C) Sidney Lumet

D) Elia Kazan

Answer · why

A) Orson Welles

Orson Welles was turned down because Wiesel felt Night would lose its meaning on screen: between his words, he said, he had written silences.