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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, who was in charge of Wiesel, his father, and the other prisoners in the prison block?

2. What were the conditions for the Jews on the train in Chapter 2?

3. In the spring of 1944, what did Elie wish his father would do?

4. What was the initial reaction of the men in the train car to Madame Schachter's screams in Chapter 2?

5. How did the Jews sleep the first night in the prison block at Auschwitz in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, why was the dentist office shut down?

2. What were the conditions like on the train at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. How did Moshe escape being killed when he was deported?

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

5. How did a young woman pass as Aryan in Chapter 4?

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

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

8. What did the tent leader's aide want from Wiesel and what would he give in return in Chapter 4?

9. 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?

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

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

In Chapter 4, Wiesel's writing style changes. In what way does his writing style change? In what way is the writing more matter-of-fact and less complex? How does this change in writing style mirror the changes Wiesel was undergoing physically? How does this provide a realistic picture of how Wiesel and the others were fighting to survive?

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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