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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 refused to take part.
(b) He knew he was strong and healthy, so he was not concerned.
(c) He was worried.
(d) He did not want to begin a new job.

2. By Chapter 8, how did the existence of the chimney affect the prisoners in Chapter 8?
(a) They felt fear and terror.
(b) They no longer noticed it.
(c) They felt grief and depression.
(d) They felt anger and hatred.

3. What did Elie struggle to do when he found himself in the deserted village?
(a) See.
(b) Steal a gun.
(c) Breathe.
(d) Hear.

4. In Chapter 5, what did Wiesel find when he returned from work, when he still had possession of his father's knife and spoon?
(a) His father's possessions were gone.
(b) His father had been selected.
(c) He found a note from his father.
(d) His father had not been selected.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 8, how many groups were the prisoners made to form?
(a) 100.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Wiesel respond to his father's request at the concentration camp?

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

3. What did the person who Elie found in a pile of bodies do as Elie fell asleep?

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

5. In Chapter 5, how did the Rosh Hashanah service end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was selection?

2. How did Zalman die in Chapter 6?

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

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

5. Why could Rabbi Eliahu not find his son?

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

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

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

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

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

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