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 * Multiple Choice Quiz on Chapters 6 & 7 of Night**


 * Directions:** Number a separate piece of paper from 1-15. Read the following questions and write down the letter of the best answer for each question.

1. Elie and his fellow prisoners are marched for 20 kilometers through a bitter cold night to reach another camp. What happens if anyone stops? a. They are slapped and beaten. b. They are put in a car for the weak and ill. c. They are shot on the spot. d. They are simply forgotten.

2. Why is Zalman, a young boy from Poland, trampled to death during the march? a. He is being punished for being rebellious. b. He has to stop to relieve himself because his stomach aches. c. He falls asleep in the snow. d. The other prisoners hate him.

3. Elie gets to the point that the only thing he wants to do is die. What stops him from doing so? a. His father keeps urging him on. b. He is hoping that when they arrive at the other camp, he will see his mother. c. He does not want to desert his father. d. He is afraid that his wanting to die will go against God’s will.

4. Why does Elie’s father wake him when Elie falls asleep in the snow? a. It is time to once again march onward. b. His father is afraid that the Germans will shoot Elie. c. The German guards are distributing food and water. d. If Elie falls asleep in the snow, he will never wake up again.

5. What is lying all around Elie in the snow? a. Unexploded shells. b. Body parts. c. Pieces of fallen trees and collapsed buildings. d. Stiffened corpses.

6. Why is Elie so bothered by the boy who leaves his Rabbi father behind? a. He is scared by the thought that he might want to get rid of his own father. b. He thinks the boy treated the Rabbi unfairly. c. The Rabbi was shot by the Germans. d. The Rabbi is a personal friend of Elie and his father.

7. What happens to the men who die on the march? a. They are left in the snow. b. No one recites prayers for them. c. Even their sons do not weep for them. d. All of the above.

8. When the prisoners are to be moved again, they are given a small ration of bread, but nothing to drink. How do they quench their thirst? a. They drink their own blood from their wounds. b. They drink from a nearby stream. c. They drink from the canteens they have with them. d. They eat snow.

9. The prisoners are transported farther by a train. What do they do with the men who die on the journey? a. They undress them. b. They throw them off of the train. c. They take their clothing for themselves. d. All of the above.

10. The train moves on for days, during which time they receive no food or water. What do they eat in order to survive? a. The dead. b. Bread that they have hidden in their clothing. c. Snow. d. They boil their shoes and eat them.

11. One day the train comes to a stop. What does a German worker throw into the train that causes a stampede? a. A bomb. b. Dead babies. c. Bread. d. A cauldron of soup.

12. Why does the one young man kill his own elderly father? a. He can no longer stand to see the old man suffer. b. The young man has lost his mind. c. For a crust of bread. d. The old man was a spy for the Germans.

13. What happens to the young man who kills his elderly father? a. Other men jump him and kill him for what he has. b. The German guards shoot him. c. He dies of natural causes. d. He is thrown off of the train into the frigid snow to die.

14. Who saves Elie’s life when he awakens in the middle of the night because some one is strangling him? a. The S.S. Officer who shoots the culprit. b. The Rabbi c. Meir Katz d. All of the above

15. Approximately 100 prisoners had begun the journey to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. How many of that number were still alive when they arrived at their final destination? a. 12 b. All 100 c. Only Elie and his father d. Only half.