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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the author show about pain and suffering, particularly in Chapter 8?
(a) Pain and suffering can be worse than death.
(b) They will always exist.
(c) Pain and suffering are better than death because at least you are still living.
(d) Pain and suffering help to build character.
2. What is "selection"?
(a) The process of selecting new prisoners to enter the camp.
(b) The process of separating the healthy from the weak.
(c) The process of selecting prisoners for new jobs.
(d) The process of choosing who is released from the camp.
3. What did Wiesel and his father decide to do after hearing that the Russians may be approaching the camp in Chapter 5?
(a) They chose to evacuate.
(b) They chose to remain in the hospital.
(c) They chose to hide in an air raid shelter.
(d) Elie chose to join the Russian army.
4. Why did Wiesel's father make the request he did at the concentration camp in Chapter 8?
(a) He desperately needed medicine.
(b) He wanted to be with his wife and daughter.
(c) He wanted Wiesel to have a chance for survival.
(d) He was exhausted.
5. What did the SS officers call the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Flea-ridden dogs.
(c) Rats.
(d) Flea-bitten corpses.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happened while Wiesel and his father were talking about the request his father made?
2. What did the person who Elie found in a pile of bodies do as Elie fell asleep?
3. What happened to prisoners who were selected?
4. In Chapter 5, how many crematoria work day and night?
5. In Chapter 5, what happened to Wiesel's leg?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the prisoners celebrate Rosh Hashanah in Chapter 5?
2. Where did the prisoners take shelter in Chapter 6?
3. Who was Meir Katz and what happened to him?
4. Who was Akiba Drumer and what happened to him in Chapter 5?
5. What argument did Wiesel have with his father at the beginning of Chapter 8?
6. How did Zalman die in Chapter 6?
7. Why did Wiesel have to go to the infirmary in Chapter 5?
8. In Chapter 6, what happened to Juliek?
9. What advice did the Blockalteste give Wiesel regarding his father in Chapter 8?
10. How did Wiesel feel when he heard blessings to God by the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 5?
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