Grammar
Night
Maus
Text Analysis
Test Questions
100

An action word.

What is a verb?

100
"Night" is this type of text.

What is memoir?

100

Maus is this type of text.

What is graphic memoir?

100

The flashback in a story.

What is a memory from the past?

100

The author of Maus introduces the events at the beginning of the selection with--

What is a conversation between two characters?

200

Descriptive phrases about our senses.

What are sensory details?

200

Definition of the word "execute."

What is, to carry out or accomplish?

200

Definition of the word "carpentry."

What is building and or constructing with materials?

200

The topic of both texts.

What is WWII, Holocaust, or the selection process?

200

The tone of paragraph 65 in "Night."

What is despair?

300

The way a word is interpreted or perceived, a feeling aside from the literal meaning.

What is connotation?

300
The narrator is sad for this reason.

What is, his father may be selected?

300

The daughter who is separated from the narrator's family.

Who is Fela?

300
The reason the author of Maus chooses to use big panels for some of the scenes.

What is, the larger panel shows the scale of the crowd and sets the scene for the individuals present at the stadium?

300

The main purpose for writing "Night."

What is to inform readers about his experience during World War II?

400

The part of the sentence that is the dependent clause: "For the first time, his voice quivered." from "Night," by Elie Wiesel

What is "For the first time?"

400
Explain the resolution of the story.

What is, the narrator is reunited with his father?

400

The purpose of the selection process.

What is to separate and send Jews to camps/prison- like compounds?

400

State the figurative language used in the sentence:
"The race seemed endless..." from "Night" by Elie Wiesel

What is hyperbole?

400

The definition of the word "present" as it is used in paragraph 1 of Night.

What is a gift?

500

The correct location for the question mark when writing dialogue.

What is inside the quotation marks?

500

The two items that were the narrator's "inheritance."

What is, a knife and spoon?

500

The part of the story that marks a transition from the flashback of the past to the conversation in the present.

What is the bike outside of the panels of the story?

500

The reason Art Spiegelman depicted the German Nazis as cats and the Jewish citizens as mice.

What is, Spiegelman uses the metaphor of cats chasing/hunting mice to reflect the relationship between the Germans and Jews at the time of the Holocaust.

500

The statement that best compares "Night" and Maus.

What is, both texts inform the reader about the experience of Jews during the Holocaust?