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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. What happened to Madame Schachter as a result of the train trip in Chapter 2?
2. In Chapter 2, where was the first stop the train makes?
3. What was Moishe the Beadle's economic status?
4. How did Madame Schachter react when the train began moving again in Chapter 2?
5. How long did it take one of the hanged prisoners to die at the end of Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Jews on the train in Chapter 2 feel when they heard what the men who went to get water reported?
2. How did life deteriorate for the Jews after the Hungarian police arrested the Jewish community leaders during Passover?
3. How did a young woman pass as Aryan in Chapter 4?
4. In Chapter 3, what did an SS officer tell the prisoners about Auschwitz?
5. 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?
6. What type of work was Wiesel given to do in Chapter 4?
7. How did Wiesel describe Dr. Mengele?
8. What did Weisel want to do in the spring of 1944?
9. What did Madame Schachter scream about shortly after the train stopped and how did that relate to what the prisoners saw when they got off the train cars?
10. What did the German officer and the Hungarian interpreter tell the Jews on the train to the concentration camp in Chapter 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Moishe the Beadle was one of the first to be deported and escape from the Germans. What news did he have to share when he returned? Why was he so desperate to tell his story? What was his goal for talking to everyone about his experiences and what did he hope would result from his warnings? Why did he believe that "It's not what happens, but how we react to what happens"?
Essay Topic 2
Elie is the author and also the main character in Night. How would the story change if it was told from a different point of view? Choose another point of view from another individual or an outside narrator. What would the reader learn from this narrator that is different from Elie as the narrator? Why?
Essay Topic 3
As a teen, Wiesel wanted to study the Jewish Kaballah. What was the Kaballah? What was going on in Wiesel's life? Why did that cause him to turn to Jewish mysticism? How did the study of the Kaballah help him resolve some of the questions he struggled with at that time in his life?
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