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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. Why did Rabbi Elichou's son perform the action that Elie remembers?
(a) He was tortured at the camp which caused him to go insane.
(b) He wanted to get away from his father.
(c) He wanted to be a rabbi like his father.
(d) He worked in the hospital at the camp.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the beginning of Chapter 8, how many groups were the prisoners made to form?

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

4. What season was ending at the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 6, how did the prisoners quench their thirst?

2. How did Wiesel feel when he heard blessings to God by the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. How did the prisoners celebrate Rosh Hashanah in Chapter 5?

4. What was selection?

5. What argument did Wiesel have with his father at the beginning of Chapter 8?

6. Why would Wiesel's father not let him sleep in Chapter 6 while they sheltered in an old factory?

7. Why did Wiesel have to go to the infirmary in Chapter 5?

8. How were the prisoners crushed into the barracks when they arrived at Gleiwitz in Chapter 6?

9. Who was Meir Katz and what happened to him?

10. How did Zalman die in Chapter 6?

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