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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. In Chapter 2, what is Auschwitz?

2. In Chapter 2, how does Wiesel describe his train trip leaving Sighet?

3. Why was the dentist who did not pull Elie's tooth arrested in Chapter 4?

4. What is Birkenau in Chapter 2?

5. How many words were spoken as the prisoners leave the train in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened at the barrack where Wiesel and his father were taken in Chapter 3?

2. Who was the head of the camp in Chapter 4 and how did he act?

3. Why did the Jews conserve their food on the train to the concentration camp in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 4, where did Wiesel say that he again met a woman he had worked with in the concentration camp?

8. How did life deteriorate for the Jews after the Hungarian police arrested the Jewish community leaders during Passover?

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

10. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what did the Jews leave behind in the wagons?

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

Adversity can either strengthen or weaken a person. Considering Wiesel, his father, and other characters, was it more common for the adversity they suffered to make them stronger or weaker?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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