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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. What was the initial reaction of the men in the train car to Madame Schachter's screams in Chapter 2?
2. In Chapter 3, what was the first impression of Auschwitz by the prisoners on their arrival?
3. What was Madame Schachter's frame of mind as she screamed on the cattle car in Chapter 2?
4. In Chapter 3, why did Wiesel's father ask directions to the washroom?
5. In Chapter 2, a German officer who threatened to shoot the occupants of the cattle car compared them to what animal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Buna look like when Wiesel arrived in Chapter 4?
2. What were the conditions like on the train at the beginning of Chapter 2?
3. Who was the head of the camp in Chapter 4 and how did he act?
4. How did Franck get Wiesel to part with his gold tooth?
5. What happened at the barrack where Wiesel and his father were taken in Chapter 3?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. How did a young woman pass as Aryan in Chapter 4?
9. How did Wiesel describe Dr. Mengele?
10. How did the Jews on the train in Chapter 2 feel when they heard what the men who went to get water reported?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
Wiesel and his father had a symbiotic relationship. What is a symbiotic relationship? In what way did the two of them provide support and nurture for one another? How did their symbiotic relationship benefit them as they suffered in the concentration camp? How did the relationship keep the two alive?
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