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Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choce

1. Which of the following best describes Wiesel’s relationship with religion at the beginning of the memoir?

A) Hesitant

B) Exuberant

C) Suspicious

D) Devout

2. Wiesel recalls watching the Jewish townspeople leave Sighet for the first convoy: “It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition. [...] They passed me by like beaten dogs with never a glance in my direction” (Chapter 1). Which types of figurative language does he use in this quote?

A) Metaphor and simile

B) Allusion and simile

C) Allegory and personification

D) Anaphora and metaphor

3. Which of the following best describes the purpose of Chapter 2?

A) To describe Wiesel’s relationship with Moishe the Beadle

B) To focus on the first few days in Auschwitz-Birkenau

C) To share an intimate story between two lovers who are separated in different transports

D) To recount the days of travel from the ghetto to the camp

4. As a fellow inmate recites the prayer for the dead, Wiesel asks, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Chapter 3) Based on this quote, which of the following statements is true?

A) This is the moment when Wiesel becomes a Kabbalist.

B) This is the first instance when Wiesel’s love for God changes to anger.

C) This is the moment when he renounces his religion altogether and becomes agnostic.

D) This is the time when Wiesel becomes even further entrenched in his studies and faith.

5. Which figure of speech does Wiesel use in this passage? “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night, seven times sealed” (Chapter 3).

A) Metaphor

B) Irony

C) Paradox

D) Allegory

6. Which of the following best describes the general mood of the camp at the end of the Rosh Hashanah holiday in 1944?

A) Hopeful

B) Depressed

C) Exhilarated

D) Tense

7. As Wiesel, his father, and the other men of the camp run from Buna in the cold, Wiesel reflects, “We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth” (Chapter 6). Which of the following literary devices does he use in this passage?

A) Simile

B) Personification

C) Hyperbole

D) Irony

8. “Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other. Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes. An extraordinary vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails” (Chapter 7). Which literary device does Wiesel use this quote?

A) Personification

B) Simile

C) Allegory

D) Metaphor

9. Which of the following best describes the mood as Wiesel and his fellow inmates wait in the stalled train compartments?

A) Exhaustion, because they are left in the hot sun for days on end

B) Fear, because they know they will be killed if they make any noise

C) Despair, because they have been left for days in the snow without food

D) Optimism, because they are going to be rescued by French troops

10. Which of the following best describes Wiesel’s primary fear throughout the memoir?

A) Being separated from his father

B) Losing his faith in God

C) Dying at the hands of the Nazis

D) Suffering insults from other inmates

11. In his final days with his father, what emotion does Wiesel feel?

A) Joy that his father will be reunited with God

B) Guilt that he begins to view his father as a burden

C) Fear that his father will leave him alone in the world

D) Anger that his father tried to commit suicide

12. Which of the following statements best characterizes the purpose of this memoir?

A) To recount a man’s final days in war-torn Hungary

B) To describe the effects of war on Jewish women and children 

C) To highlight the lessons learned from living under a fascist regime

D) To share a story of survival in the context of death and despair

13. Which of the following best describes the effect of the memoir’s final passage?

A) It exemplifies the effect that death had on Wiesel’s mental health and well-being.

B) It evokes sympathy for Wiesel’s father.

C) It shames the Nazi regime from the perspective of Buna inmates.

D) It highlights the problem of malnourishment in concentration camps.

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How is death personified in Wiesel’s account? Provide two examples from the text.

2. Consider the narration style throughout the account. How would you describe the style of narration, and how does this style impact the content?