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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. How did the living feel when the corpses were thrown off the train in Chapter 7?
(a) Sad.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Glad.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 7, where were the prisoners being transported to?
(a) Aden.
(b) Back to Auschwitz.
(c) Buchenwald.
(d) Bergen-Belsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could Wiesel do when rumors started that the Russians were approaching the camp in Chapter 5?

2. What feeling did Elie have toward Rabbi Elichou's son?

3. What is "selection"?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 8, how many ranks were the prisoners ordered to form?

5. What happened on the morning of January 29, 1945?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. At the beginning of Chapter 6, what did Wiesel tell himself?

3. What was selection?

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

5. How did Zalman die in Chapter 6?

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

7. What was the general attitude of the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 7?

8. Why could Rabbi Eliahu not find his son?

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

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

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