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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 3, what lie did Wiesel tell a man who was looking for Wiesel of Sighat?

2. What is Birkenau in Chapter 2?

3. What happened to the train on which Moshe was deported?

4. In Chapter 4, what happened to Wiesel when he was working?

5. At the end of Chapter 1, where did the Hungarian police send the Jews?

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. Why was Wiesel able to keep his new pair of shoes in Chapter 3?

4. How were the people of Sighet lulled into a false sense of security by the German troops who entered Sighet in the spring of 1944?

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 did Weisel want to do in the spring of 1944?

7. What type of work was Wiesel given to do in Chapter 4?

8. What did Buna look like when Wiesel arrived in Chapter 4?

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. In Chapter 3, what did an SS officer tell the prisoners about Auschwitz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning of Chapter 3, Wiesel was a fun loving, curious, and kind teenager, who became a survivor. Would Wiesel have been considered a compassionate person before the concentration camp? What events took place that caused Wiesel to lose his love of fun and his kindness? What did Wiesel see as he and his father adjusted to life in the concentration camp? In what ways did Wiesel become dispassionate? How was Wiesel transformed from a carefree teenager to a survivor who stumbled through his new life?

Essay Topic 3

Father/son relationships were tested in the concentration camps. What are some examples of father/son relationships that broke down in the concentration camps? How was Wiesel's relationship with his father tested? In what ways did Wiesel succeed at the temptations caused by the tests he endured? In what ways did he fail the tests he endured?

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