The Books of Elie Wiesel Trivia Quiz

Answer: Night

"Night" became Elie Wiesel's most famous book, which is frequently assigned as required reading in English classes throughout the United States. The book has been translated into over thirty languages.

"All Rivers Run to the Sea" is a memoir Elie Wiesel published in 1994. "Open Heart" was his last reminiscence, published in 2012. "The Jews of Silence" was a personal testimony he published in 1966.

Answer: The Winds of War

"The Winds of War" is a book by Jewish novelist Herman Wouk and is the prequel to "War and Remembrance".

"The Judges" was published in 2002 in English. "The Forgotten" was published in 1992 and "The Gates of the Forest" in 1966.

Answer: Hungary

In the novel, first published in 1964, the young man, Michael, travels back to his hometown in Hungary to confront what he refers to as "the face in the window."

In 1963, Elie Wiesel won the National Jewish Book Council Award for this novel. In 2012, he returned a Hungarian state prize he won in 2004, saying he no longer wanted it because he was convinced that Hungary was "whitewashing" its collaboration with the Nazis in deporting Jews.

Answer: Zalmen, or the Madness of God

"The Yiddish King Lear" is by Jacob Gordin, "The Jew of Malta" by Christopher Marlowe, and "Yentl" by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. "Zalemen, or the Madness of God" was an original play by Elie Wiesel that opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City in March of 1976.

Answer: And the Sea is Never Full

"Sailor and Fiddler" was the memoir of Herman Wouk, the author of "The Caine Mutiny," "War and Remembrance," and "This is My God." Elie Wiesel's "All Rivers Run to the Sea" was published in 1994. "The Trial of God" was a 1979 play inspired by Wiesel's personal observance of three Jews in Auschwitz who conducted a trial against God.

Answer: James and Jesus

The book also talks about Adam and Abraham. Wiesel draws on classic Midrash to universalize these Biblical characters and bring them to life in modern times.

Answer: The Time of the Uprooted

The family flees its home country in 1939. The novel features Gamaliel Friedman, who keeps his Jewish identity secret to survive persecution. As a consequence, he feels uprooted. He seeks out a home in Europe, but he is eventually forced to reconcile with his past. The novel was published in 2005.

Answer: Day

These three works (one autobiography, "Night", and two novellas, "Dawn" and "Day") are often sold in a single volume as "The Night Trilogy." Originally published in the U.K. as "The Accident", "Day" tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who, while recovering from a car accident, thinks back on his experiences in World War II.

Answer: The Oath

Moshe makes the confession in a futile attempt to spare his people from persecution. Moshe makes the community swear that whoever survives the impending pogrom will never speak of the tragedy. There is one survivor, and he keeps his oath for fifty years.

Answer: John Dawson

"Dawn" is the second installment in Elie Wiesel's "Night" trilogy. Elisha is recruited to join the movement and assigned the task of executing the captured English army officer John Dawson as an act of reprisal. Elisha struggles emotionally and morally with his impending task.

When he meets the man, the first thing the officer asks is, "What time is it?" Elisha tells him it is not yet time, but he eventually carries out his assigned duty. When he completes the execution, he realizes that the act has changed him irrevocably.

Answer: Characters from the Old Testament

Raphael is a Holocaust survivor, and as he interviews these patients who believe themselves to be characters from the Old Testament, he reflects on his own past. The novel was originally published in French in 1988 under the title "Le crépuscule, au loin".

Answer: The Six-Day War

In the novel, a survivor of the Holocaust visits Jerusalem in the wake of the Six-Day War, where he encounters madmen and beggars at the Western Wall who force him to deal with the ghosts of his own past. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere," Elie Wiesel wrote, "I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory."

Answer: The Fifth Son

In the novel, Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, though the young man desires to understand his father better. The novel was originally published in French in 1983 as "Le cinquième fils".

Answer: Stalin's secret execution of several Jewish writers

On August 12, 1952, known as "The Night of the Murdered Poets", thirteen Soviet Jews were executed in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. Five of them were Yiddish writers who were members of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee. In the book, Paltiel Kossover is executed, but not before being allowed to leave a written testament for his son.

Answer: Golem

"The Golem" was published in 1983, translated by Anne Borchardt, and illustrated by Mark Podwal. It retells several legends associated with the golem from the perspective of a gravedigger. The creature was said to have been brought to life by the incantations of Rabbi Yehuda Loew, the leader of the Jewish community in 16th century Prague.