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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. How did Wiesel know Madame Schachter so well?
2. In Chapter 4 why was speaking German to Wiesel at the camp so risky for a young female prisoner?
3. How many words were spoken as the prisoners leave the train in Chapter 3?
4. Madame Schachter traveled with whom in Chapter 2?
5. Where did the flames appear to be coming from that the Jews saw as they exit the train at Birkenau in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 2 after arriving at the Auschwitz station, what did two men learn when they were sent to get water?
2. How did some of the passengers let go of their inhibitions in Chapter 2?
3. Who was Madame Schachter?
4. Why did the Jews conserve their food on the train to the concentration camp in Chapter 2?
5. 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?
6. In Chapter 4, where did Wiesel say that he again met a woman he had worked with in the concentration camp?
7. How were the prisoners escorted off the train cars at the end of Chapter 2?
8. What did Weisel want to do in the spring of 1944?
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. In Chapter 4, how did Wiesel describe the tent leader?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Wiesel struggled with his relationship with his father throughout the book. How did Wiesel treat his father when they were first imprisoned? Why did Wiesel sometimes want to abandon his father? Why was Wiesel conflicted about how to treat his father? How did Wiesel's relationship with his father change throughout Night?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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