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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prisoners were loaded into the cattle cars at the end of Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 3, who was in charge of Wiesel, his father, and the other prisoners in the prison block?

3. In Chapter 1, what did Wiesel like about Moishe?

4. How did Wiesel know Madame Schachter so well?

5. What did the SS officer do the prisoners in Chapter 3 the day after arriving at Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Weisel's attitude about food change in Chapter 3?

2. What did the German officer and the Hungarian interpreter tell the Jews on the train to the concentration camp in Chapter 2?

3. How did Moshe's experiences during the deportation change him?

4. How did Franck get Wiesel to part with his gold tooth?

5. What did the prisoners feel when they learned about the crematorium in Chapter 3?

6. What happened to Moshe and his companions who were deported?

7. In Chapter 4, how did Wiesel describe the tent leader?

8. In Chapter 2 after arriving at the Auschwitz station, what did two men learn when they were sent to get water?

9. How were the prisoners escorted off the train cars at the end of Chapter 2?

10. Several months after Moshe the Beadle and the other foreign Jews were deported, what did the people of Sighet believe about the lives of the deportees?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There were warnings and predictions by people considered outcasts about the coming suffering for the Jews. Who was the first outcast that warned the people of Sighet of the coming trouble? What visions did Madame Schächte see? How did people respond to the warnings and the prediction? Why were the warnings and predictions ignored? What did Wiesel want his father to do when trouble was coming? What did Wiesel think might have happened if people had listened?

Essay Topic 2

Wiesel struggled with his relationship with his father throughout the book. How did Wiesel treat his father when they were first imprisoned? Why did Wiesel sometimes want to abandon his father? Why was Wiesel conflicted about how to treat his father? How did Wiesel's relationship with his father change throughout Night?

Essay Topic 3

When the German Army advanced toward Sighet, the people were not very concerned. What two warnings did they receive about the Germans? Why were the townspeople complacent about the arrival of the army? Did events ever cause them to lose their complacency? If so, how or why?

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