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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. 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) Pity.
(d) Boredom.

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

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

4. In Chapter 6, why were the prisoners running as they were evacuated?
(a) They were running from the Russian army.
(b) There was a storm approaching.
(c) They were trying to keep warm.
(d) The SS officers ordered them to run.

5. In Chapter 5, what did the prisoners receive the night before Rosh Hashanah, the last day of the Jewish year?
(a) Nothing--they were being punished for observing a Jewish holiday.
(b) Nothing--their religion prohibits them from eating on this day.
(c) Thick soup.
(d) A crust of bread.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 5, what happened to Wiesel's leg?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the prisoners take shelter in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 5, how did veterans of Buna describe the camp as it was two years ago?

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 6, how far did the prisoners run and what condition were they in when they finished?

7. How did Wiesel feel about Rosh Hashanah in the past?

8. What was Yom Kippur and what debate was there over the day in Chapter 5?

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

10. What advice did the Blockalteste give Wiesel regarding his father in Chapter 8?

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