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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) Men were taking him off the wagon.
(b) He was shivering uncontrollably.
(c) He was suffocating.
(d) Someone was choking him.

2. What did Wiesel do as other Jews praise God on Rosh Hashanah?
(a) He joined with the others in offering praise.
(b) He criticized God.
(c) He loudly criticized those who were praising.
(d) He was the prayer leader.

3. In Chapter 5, what happened to Wiesel's leg?
(a) It was severely injured at work.
(b) It was broken during a fight.
(c) It became swollen.
(d) It was amputated.

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

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

6. 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.

7. Why did Wiesel not fast on Yom Kippur in Chapter 5?
(a) The doctor said he would starve to death if he fasted.
(b) He joined the other prisoners in their refusal to fast.
(c) He was rebelling against God.
(d) He was too hungry.

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

9. How many prisoners gathered on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in Chapter 5?
(a) Thousands.
(b) 1,200.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) 900.

10. What did the person who Elie found in a pile of bodies do as Elie fell asleep?
(a) Sang Jewish folk songs.
(b) Told stories.
(c) Prayed aloud.
(d) Played his violin.

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

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

13. In particular, what part of the occurrence that Wiesel witnessed later in life reminiscent of the workman throwing bread to the prisoners caused his reaction?
(a) He noticed one of the homeless people pull a knife.
(b) Two children were trying to strangle each other for coins.
(c) He saw a prison guard strike the prisoner to the ground.
(d) One of the children looked like a friend he knew at Buchenwald.

14. Who or what was waiting for the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Dr. Mengele.
(b) Coats.
(c) SS officers.
(d) Food.

15. What was Wiesel's reaction when he realizes his father is dead?
(a) He tried to commit suicide.
(b) He cursed his captors.
(c) He cried hysterically.
(d) He did not cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the living feel when the corpses were thrown off the train in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 7, when Wiesel awoke, what was the condition of his father?

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

4. At the beginning of Chapter 7, in the early dawn light how much of a difference was there between the living and the dead?

5. Where was Zalman from?

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