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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 could Wiesel do when rumors started that the Russians were approaching the camp in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 7, when Wiesel awoke, what was the condition of his father?

3. How many steps forward was every prisoner instructed to take at the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. What happened on the morning of January 29, 1945?

5. What happened while Wiesel and his father were talking about the request his father made?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what was it like when winter came?

2. Why could Rabbi Eliahu not find his son?

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

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

5. In Chapter 6, what happened to Juliek?

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

7. How were the prisoners crushed into the barracks when they arrived at Gleiwitz in Chapter 6?

8. What was selection?

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

10. How did Wiesel feel about Rosh Hashanah in the past?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Adversity can either strengthen or weaken a person. Considering Wiesel, his father, and other characters, was it more common for the adversity they suffered to make them stronger or weaker?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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