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 stares back at him, the last image of a memoir whose narrator says his first night in camp turned his life 'into one long night'. Critic Ruth...

Q 02/05

Night begins a Wiesel trilogy moving from darkness to light; what are its two later volumes titled?

A) Dusk and Morning

B) Dawn and Day

C) Twilight and Noon

D) Evening and Morning

Answer · why

B) Dawn and Day

Dawn and Day complete the sequence, following the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall, so the memoir's darkness gives way to light. D...

Q 03/05

Whose 2006 book-club pick held Night at No. 1 on the New York Times paperback list for 18 months?

A) Ellen DeGeneres

B) Reese Witherspoon

C) Oprah Winfrey

D) Emma Watson

Answer · why

C) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey picked Night in January 2006 and then toured Auschwitz with Wiesel for her show; by May 2011 the edition had sold about two million copi...

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's wish to film Night did Wiesel refuse, lest it lose meaning without its silences?

A) Orson Welles

B) Stanley Kubrick

C) Sidney Lumet

D) Elia Kazan

Answer · why

A) Orson Welles

Orson Welles wanted to make a feature film of Night, but Wiesel felt it would lose its meaning without the silences between his words. A 2025 document...