Night Chapter 5

Multiple Choice

Why did Elie choose to eat, rather than fast, on Yom Kippur?

• With so little food, they were already fasting year round at the camp

• Elie wanted to please his father who had forbidden him from fasting

• Elie ate as an act of private rebellion against God

• All of these responses are correct

Multiple Choice

What is the TONE of this statement from the chapter? "The SS offered us a beautiful present for the new year."

• Ironic

• grateful

• surprised

• depressed

Multiple Choice

Why did Elie's father give him a knife and spoon?

• Because prisoners were forced to eat with their hands

• His father wanted Elie to have something of value he could sell or trade

• In Jewish tradition, the oldest son inherits the wealth of the father, and this was all his father could hand down.

• Elie's father wanted him to to use these items to escape

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a theme statement developed by Elie including the account of Akiba Drumer's death?

• Hopelessness

• Don't judge a book by its cover

• Akiba Drumer dies once he loses hope

• Once the will to live is lost, survival is almost impossible.

Multiple Choice

What dilemma did Elie face when the camp was being evacuated?

• He could stay in the infirmary but would be separated from his father

• He could stay in the infirmary but that might be the more dangerous place

• He wanted to leave, but the wound on his foot would make it extremely painful and difficult to walk

• All of these are correct

Fill in the Blanks

What ultimately happened to the prisoners who chose to stay in the infirmary?

Multiple Choice

The prisoners cleaned their barracks an hour before they left in an attempt to retain and display their humanity. Which line from the text is evidence of this?

• "Suddenly, the Blockalteste remembered that we had forgotten to clean the block"

• "He commanded four prisoners to mop the floor."

• "For the liberating army,' he told us. 'Let them know that here lived men, and not pigs."

• "So we were men after all? The block was cleaned from top to bottom."