Literature Night Test
To destroy completely or reduce to nothing
annihilate
To lodge military personnel in a private home
billet
How does the author mainly create suspense throughout Chapter 1?
by describing Moishe's experience with the German Army, which everyone in Sighet ignores
Mutual trust and friendship among people in a group
camaraderie
Concerned with doing something correctly
conscientious
Wiesel's reaction to the others saying the Jewish prayer for the dead adds to the development of theme mainly by ___________.
demonstrating the change in his relationship with God from complete faith to doubt and anger
An official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority
edict
To escape or avoid
elude
To move swiftly and lightly
flit
Causing or possessing a lot of emotional stress or worry
fraught
Extremely cold
glacial
Choose the best sentence to add descriptive detail to the end of the paragraph on page 109 when Eliezer feels enraged that the doctor won't care for his sick father.
"Even though I was full of terrible rage, none of it could escape me, and nothing could help."
A contorted facial expression denoting disgust, disapproval, or pain
grimace
Moishe and Eliezer's conversations about God add to the development of theme mainly by _______________.
A. describing Eliezer's quest to become closer to God and his relationship with Him.
What is most closely the central idea of Chapter 1?
Eliezer and his family had a good, normal life before the Nazis came to Sighet and eventually forced them to leave.
Put the following events in chronological order:
Eliezer and his father arrive at Buchenwald, and his father starts to give up hope. ; Eliezer tries to care for his father who is very sick with dysentery. ; Eliezer wakes up, and someone else is on his father's cot. His father was dead and had been taken away in the night. ; Buchenwald is liberated by American troops, and Eliezer sees himself for the first time since the ghetto.
Order these events chronologically as they take place in Chapter 4.
Eliezer and his father await their Kommando assignments at their new camp, Buna. ; A Polish guard continuously beats Eliezer's father until Eliezer agrees to give him his gold crown. ; A man is shot to death for trying to steal soup during an air raid. ; Eliezer describes the execution of a young boy who took a half hour to die after being hanged.
What is the central idea of Chapters 5-6?
Eliezer and his father struggle to survive at Buna and on the forced march to a new camp.
What is the central idea of Chapter 4?
Eliezer and his father survive horrific beatings, meager rations, and being terrorized by the guards at Buna.
What is the central idea of Chapters 2-3?
Eliezer and the other Jews of Sighet endure a horrific train ride to Auschwitz where many are sent to the crematorium and the rest become prisoners in the concentration camp.
When Eliezer decides not to fast for Yom Kippur, he says he felt a void opening deep inside of him. Which of the following inferences best explains why he felt this way?
His faith was the most important thing in Eliezer's life before, and now he has lost it.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by Eliezer's statement that he failed the test just like Rabbi Eliahu's son on page 107?
Eliezer grudgingly gives his father his soup ration, so he feels like he has failed to be a good son just like Rabbi Eliahu's son.
Which of these inferences about Eliezer is best supported by Chapter 1?
Eliezer is a very religious young man who wants to study the Kabbalah and believes deeply in God.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the Eliezer's statement that he and his father had never understood each other as well as they did after the Rosh Hashanah service?
Eliezer no longer believes in a happy new year, and his father is also struggling to maintain any hope for the future.
Which of the following statements best explains Eliezer's father's role in the Jewish community of Sighet?
Eliezer's father is a store owner whose advice is sought out because he's a respected leader of the Jewish community.
Watching his father being beaten, not caring about the crematoriums anymore, and only focusing on his survival needs are all experiences of Eliezer's that help develop what main theme?
Eliezer's struggle to maintain his humanity in the face of brutality
A mass departure of people
Exodus
What can you infer is the main reason that Franeck continuously beat Eliezer's father?
Franeck wanted Eliezer to give him his gold crown.
Choose the best sentence to add descriptive detail to Wiesel's portrayal of the guard on page 38 that demonstrates the impact he had on Eliezer.
His hatred of us was evident and palpable.
Which of the following statements best explains why it was so important for Eliezer and his father to stay awake when the march stopped to rest even though they were exhausted?
If they fell asleep in the snow, they might die from hypothermia and never wake up.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by Eliezer's statement that his father is suffering more than him while Eliezer is being beaten?
It hurts Eliezer's father more to watch his son be beaten than it hurts Eliezer to be beaten.
Juliek, the Polish violinist from Buna, plays Beethoven one last time before he dies. Based on Eliezer's observations, which of the following inferences is the best explanation of his actions?
Juliek knows he is about to die, and he pours his hopes, past, future, and life into playing.
Which statement best explains why Meir Katz died on the train even though he was stronger and healthier than most of the prisoners because he worked in the garden?
Meir Katz died because he lost the will to go on after his son was taken from him during a selection.
Which best explains why the Jewish residents of Sighet were fond of Moishe but not other needy people in the village?
Moishe stayed out of the way, and he was awkward and shy.
Which of the following occurrences is the best example of Wiesel's use of foreshadowing in Chapter 2?
Mrs. Schächter's repeated demands that the Jews look at terrible fire that no one can see but her
Which of these inferences about Stein, his mother's niece's husband and Eliezer's cousin by marriage, is best supported by the information on page 45?
Stein gave up his will to live after he heard the real news about what happened to his wife and sons.
Which of the following best explains why the German Jew in charge of the construction kommando went back to his room when the second selection was announced?
The German Jew had reassured everyone who was selected that they would be safe, but they were not, so he didn't want to face them.
Sounding sad or forlorn
Planative
Evoking a sense of sadness or regret
Poignant
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the detail that the head of the camp had traces of fear on his face after the air raid?
The Germans are worried that they are losing the war.
Which of the following sentences best describes the Sonder-Kommando?
The Sonder-Kommando were Jewish prisoners who were in charge of disposing of the bodies of the Jews the Nazis murdered.
Which of the statements below best explains how and why the author uses a simile on page 98 to emphasize the macabre scene on the train transport to Germany?
The author compares the way the men's heads are between their shoulders to a cemetery because they are dead or near death like people in a cemetery.
Which of the following statements best describes the author's purpose for describing what the Gestapo did to the prisoners after the New Year as a beautiful present on page 69?
The author is using sarcasm to emphasis the cruelty of the Gestapo because they did a selection immediately after the New Year.
Which of the following statements best explains the impact on Eliezer's father when his fellow prisoners start beating him?
The beatings give Eliezer's father one less reason to try to keep on living.
Which of the following statements best explains why the men did not say the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for Akiba Drumer?
The men were too focused on trying to survive to remember to say the Kaddish for Akiba Drumer.
Which of the following sentences best explains how the older men convinced their sons not to revolt?
The older men remind the younger men that the sages taught them never to give up hope even when the sword is above their necks.
Which of the following statements best explains the reason why Eliezer's fellow prisoner gave him the advice about his father on page 110?
The prisoner believes Eliezer is more likely to survive if he stops giving his rations to his father.
Which of the following inferences best supports the explanation of why one of the Jewish prisoners cursed the newcomers and asked them why they came to Auschwitz?
The prisoner can't believe they hadn't heard about the death camps and believes they should have killed themselves rather than come here.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the events on page 19 when Eliezer and his family are going to the smaller ghetto?
These cruel, inhumane actions are just the beginning of the many ways Eliezer and the other Jewish people will be treated
Which of the following statements best describes the author's purpose for concluding the book with Eliezer looking at himself in the mirror?
To tell the reader that Eliezer is still haunted by his experiences today
Never done or experienced before
Unprecedented
Showing an unselfish concern for the well-being of others
altrustic
Which statement best explains why Wiesel includes the flash forward scene where he describes a Parisian woman who throws coins to the poor children and watches them fight?
Wiesel is demonstrating that a person who has not experienced desperation doesn't understand what it makes people do to each other.
Which of the following statements best explains why Wiesel included the flash forward of his conversation with the Frenchwoman many years later?
Wiesel was explaining why she did not speak German except to him on the day he was beaten.
When the Jews of Sighet are moved into ghettos and forced to wear gold stars, their reaction to the situation is mainly ____________.
hopeful that the war will end when the Red Army arrives soon.
Eliezer's primary concerns on page 77 mainly show ________.
how much his life has changed to focusing on his basic survival needs.
Something that lacks discretion, wisdom, or good judgement
imprudent
Something that motivates or encourages one to do something
incentive
Harsh or insulting language
invective
Completely and finally
irrevocably
To settle the affairs of a business or estate by disposing of its assets
liquidate
Extreme poverty
penury
A very small amount or payment
pittance
Lying stretched out, face-down
prostrate
A supply of food or other necessities
provisions
Which statement best describes what Eliezer is most fixated on when they arrive at Buna and are being assigned to Kommandos?
staying close to his father's side
Done in a secret way
surreptitious
Not capable of being maintained or defended
untendable
