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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. Why did Wiesel not fast on Yom Kippur in Chapter 5?

2. Why did Rabbi Elichou's son perform the action that Elie remembers?

3. What is the importance of the knife and spoon given to Wiesel by his father in Chapter 5?

4. What happened after the round of selection in which Wiesel's father's number was called in Chapter 5?

5. What did Wisel wonder about on the morning of January 29, 1945?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was selection?

2. Who was Meir Katz and what happened to him?

3. How did the prisoners celebrate Rosh Hashanah in Chapter 5?

4. What argument did Wiesel have with his father at the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. What was Yom Kippur and what debate was there over the day in Chapter 5?

6. Who was Akiba Drumer and what happened to him in Chapter 5?

7. How did Zalman die in Chapter 6?

8. Why would Wiesel's father not let him sleep in Chapter 6 while they sheltered in an old factory?

9. At the beginning of Chapter 6, what did Wiesel tell himself?

10. In Chapter 6, what happened to Juliek?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Prior to deportation, laws were put into place to control the Jews. What were the first laws that were enacted? How did these laws limit personal freedoms for the Jews? How did these laws condition the Jews to accept deportation? How did the laws accustom the Jews to obedience? Did the Jews tendency to follow the rules manifest itself in how they reacted when they were tortured in the concentration camps?

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

The title of the book is significant. What does night often represent to people? Do bad things occur more frequently in the daytime or at night? What does the title of the book symbolize?

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