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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, when Wiesel woke up as he was transported with the other prisoners to the concentration camp, what was happening to him?
(a) Someone was choking him.
(b) He was shivering uncontrollably.
(c) He was suffocating.
(d) Men were taking him off the wagon.

2. What was the workman's reaction as he watched the prisoners after he gave them the bread in Chapter 7?
(a) Amusement.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Horror.
(d) Pity.

3. What happened while Wiesel and his father were talking about the request his father made?
(a) The Russian army returned.
(b) Guards took Wiesel's father away.
(c) Wisel's father died.
(d) The air raid sirens wailed.

4. How did the living feel when the corpses were thrown off the train in Chapter 7?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Sad.
(d) Glad.

5. 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) Elie chose to join the Russian army.
(d) They chose to hide in an air raid shelter.

6. What feeling did Elie have toward Rabbi Elichou's son?
(a) Pride.
(b) Disgust.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Jealousy.

7. By Chapter 8, how did the existence of the chimney affect the prisoners in Chapter 8?
(a) They felt anger and hatred.
(b) They no longer noticed it.
(c) They felt fear and terror.
(d) They felt grief and depression.

8. What scene similar to that of the workman throwing the bread to the prisoners did Wiesel witness later in life?
(a) A group of homeless people drawing straws to see who gets a threadbare scarf.
(b) Children pushing and shoving to pick up candy thrown by a street performer.
(c) Guards stoning a prisoner at a penitentiary.
(d) People diving and fighting for coins thrown by passengers of a boat.

9. In Chapter 5, how did the Rosh Hashanah service end?
(a) Seder.
(b) Psalm
(c) Shabbat.
(d) Kaddish.

10. What did Elie pray for regarding the actions of Rabbi Elichou's son upon remembering his actions?
(a) Elie prayed that the son's actions would not cause the rabbi's death.
(b) Elie did not want to be like him.
(c) Elie prayed for medical skills so he could help others.
(d) Elie prayed to be spiritual.

11. Where did a veteran of Buchenwald tell Wiesel that they would be sent at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Latrines.
(b) Showers and the blocks.
(c) Work stations.
(d) Mess hall.

12. In Chapter 8, why did the prisoners feel this way about the chimney at this point in the story?
(a) They resented the way they were treated.
(b) They did not have the strength to care.
(c) They were too grief-stricken to realize this was how their lives would end.
(d) They were afraid to die in that way.

13. What did Elie struggle to do when he found himself in the deserted village?
(a) Steal a gun.
(b) See.
(c) Hear.
(d) Breathe.

14. What did Elie find in the morning at the deserted village?
(a) Rabbi Elichou's son was dead.
(b) Juliek was dead.
(c) Zalman was dead.
(d) Rabbi Elichou was dead.

15. At the beginning of Chapter 8, how many ranks were the prisoners ordered to form?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what was Wiesel's father's frame of mind?

2. Why did Rabbi Elichou's son perform the action that Elie remembers?

3. What did Wiesel's father ask Wiesel to do for him when they were in the concentration camp in Chapter 8?

4. Why did Wiesel's father make the request he did at the concentration camp in Chapter 8?

5. What happened on the morning of January 29, 1945?

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