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

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

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

4. What happened when Wiesel wanted to sleep in the snow?
(a) His father kept him awake.
(b) His father covered him with a tattered blanket.
(c) He got frostbite.
(d) An SS officer threatened to shoot him.

5. When a workman threw a piece of bread to the prisoners, how did the prisoners react in Chapter 7?
(a) They drew straws to see who got the bread.
(b) They threw it back at the workman.
(c) They were too weak and indifferent to care.
(d) They fought over it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What filled the prisoners' brains at the beginning of Chapter 7?

2. What is "selection"?

3. At the end of Chapter 6, how were the prisoners forced to travel?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what happened to Juliek?

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

3. Why could Rabbi Eliahu not find his son?

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

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

6. How did Zalman die in Chapter 6?

7. In Chapter 5, what was it like when winter came?

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

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

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

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