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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were there 100 passengers crowded together as they traveled in Chapter 6?
(a) There were fewer guards for the prisoners.
(b) The prisoners were so thin.
(c) There were fewer conveyances to carry the prisoners.
(d) There were more prisoners to transport.

2. As the prisoners traveled on the train in Chapter 7, what did they eat?
(a) Soup.
(b) Snow.
(c) Bread.
(d) Rotten meat.

3. What happened to Zalman in Chapter 6 when he collapsed with a stomachache?
(a) He was trampled by other prisoners.
(b) Medics carried him on a stretcher.
(c) He was shot.
(d) Wiesel picked him up and helped him run.

4. How many steps forward was every prisoner instructed to take at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

5. What did Wiesel's father ask Wiesel to do for him when they were in the concentration camp in Chapter 8?
(a) Try to steal medicine.
(b) Let him die in the snow.
(c) Escape.
(d) Beg the guards to take him to the crematory.

6. What happened on the morning of January 29, 1945?
(a) Wiesel saw his father taken to the crematory.
(b) The prisoners were evacuated again.
(c) Wiesel believed his father was dead.
(d) The camp was liberated by the Americans.

7. How did Wiesel's father fare in the first round of the selection process in Chapter 5?
(a) He was selected.
(b) He was not selected.
(c) He began his new job in the kitchen.
(d) He was to be released from the camp.

8. What did Wisel wonder about on the morning of January 29, 1945?
(a) What took the Americans so long to liberate the camp.
(b) Where they were being evacuated to.
(c) Where he would go now that he was free.
(d) If his father was still alive when he was taken to the crematory.

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

10. What happened to prisoners who were selected?
(a) They were sent to the crematory.
(b) The new prisoners had to take care of the chimney.
(c) Those selected were released from camp, then shot.
(d) The prisoners were required to begin their new jobs immediately.

11. At the beginning of Chapter 7, in the early dawn light how much of a difference was there between the living and the dead?
(a) The dead were beginning to smell.
(b) Barely a difference.
(c) The dead were gray, and the living were white.
(d) No difference.

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

13. In Chapter 6, in yet another selection process, what happened to Eli's father?
(a) Elie's father was selected.
(b) He was forced to tend the chimney.
(c) He began a new job in the hospital.
(d) Elie's father was not selected.

14. At the end of Chapter 6, how were the prisoners forced to travel?
(a) Passenger train car.
(b) Cattle car.
(c) Hay wagon.
(d) Truck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By Chapter 8, how did the existence of the chimney affect the prisoners in Chapter 8?

2. What did Elie struggle to do when he found himself in the deserted village?

3. In Chapter 7, where were the prisoners being transported to?

4. What happened after the round of selection in which Wiesel's father's number was called in Chapter 5?

5. How many corpses were thrown from the wagon in Chapter 7?

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