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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the weather like at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) It was raining.
(b) Icy wind was blowing.
(c) It was sunny.
(d) It was snowing.

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

3. How many corpses were thrown from the wagon in Chapter 7?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what was Wiesel's father's frame of mind?
(a) He was giving up on life.
(b) He was extremely angry.
(c) He was insane.
(d) He was desperate for Elie to survive.

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

6. 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 was exhausted.
(d) He wanted Wiesel to have a chance for survival.

7. 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 gray, and the living were white.
(b) Barely a difference.
(c) No difference.
(d) The dead were beginning to smell.

8. What is one way that Wiesel addressed God at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Creator.
(b) Comforter.
(c) Master of the Universe.
(d) Eternal.

9. What is the importance of the knife and spoon given to Wiesel by his father in Chapter 5?
(a) It shows how little they had.
(b) It meant Elie's father now worked in the kitchen.
(c) It meant there would be a prayer meeting that night behind the kitchen.
(d) It was a secret code between Elie and his father.

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

11. After the war, what did Elie learn about the Russians coming to the camp in Chapter 5?
(a) The Russians never entered the camp.
(b) The Russians liberated those in the hospital two days after the evacuation.
(c) The camp authorities massacred everyone who remained in camp.
(d) Anyone who remained in camp was taken prisoner by the Russians.

12. How did Wiesel respond to his father's request at the concentration camp?
(a) He cried bitterly.
(b) He argued with his father.
(c) He quietly accepted his request.
(d) He was speechless.

13. What happened after the round of selection in which Wiesel's father's number was called in Chapter 5?
(a) Elie's father was not selected.
(b) Elie's father was selected.
(c) Elie's father was to be released from the camp.
(d) Elie's father began his new job in the kitchen.

14. Why did Wiesel return the knife and spoon to his father in Chapter 5?
(a) It reinforced the fact that his father was not selected.
(b) His father needed something to remind him of Elie until the result of his selection occurs.
(c) It continued the secret code between father and son.
(d) His father needed them to work in the kitchen.

15. What were Wiesel's feelings about selection in Chapter 5?
(a) He knew he was strong and healthy, so he was not concerned.
(b) He did not want to begin a new job.
(c) He was worried.
(d) He refused to take part.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what was waiting for the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What was Wiesel's reaction to the event he witnessed later in life that reminded him of the workman throwing bread to the prisoners?

3. Where did a veteran of Buchenwald tell Wiesel that they would be sent at the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. What was the reaction of the person Wiesel spoke to at the event that reminds him of the workman throwing bread to the prisoners?

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

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