Night Final Quiz

This word best describes the tone of the passage in which Wiesel describes hearing Juliek playing the violin.

• Outraged
• Sinister
• Melancholy
• Regretful

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Wiesel's clawing for air in the barrack established a mood of

• joy
• doom
• anger
• desperation

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Wiesel suggests that the power of faith

• cannot sustain in survival situations
• is useless against true evil
• can keep people from giving up hope
• is useful only in times of crisis

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Wiesel's description of Juliek playing the violin suggests

• everyone should play an instrucment
• that the Nazis hated all music
• how music calms people even in dire straits
• the power of art to express unspeakable emotion

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

From these excerpts, what can you infer is Wiesel's message about the power of evil?

• Evil can only be defeated through luck
• Only minorities need to fear evil
• Evil will never be eliminated from the world
• Evil can be fought in many ways

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

In the morning, the face of the camp had changed. Prisoners appeared in strange outfits: it was like a masquerade. Everyone had put on several garments, one on top of the other, in order to keep out the cold. Poor mountebanks, wider than they were tall, more dead than alive; poor clowns, their ghostlike faces emerging from piles of prison clothes! Buffoons! (61)

The primary purpose of the text above is to -

• add humor to the story.

• show how absurd the prisoners looked.

• have the reader pity the prisoners.

• show that the Nazis gave the prisoners enough clothes to keep warm.

1. The last night in Buna. Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train. . . How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one “last night” to another? (61)

This selection provides the best evidence of -

• a metaphor

• a hyperbole

• use of imagery

• use of repetition

1. In the excerpt below, the author uses imagery that reveals which thematic idea?

I tried to get rid of my invisible assassin. My whole will to live was centered in my nails. I scratched. I battled for a mouthful of air. I tore at decaying flesh…. (69)

• Fathers and sons

• Loss of faith

• Self-preservation

• Silently standing by while witnessing human sufferring

1. In the following sentence, why does the author use the word “corpse” to describe Juliek’s violin?

Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse. (70)

• It is symbolic of the death of the hope that his music had previously given the prisoners.

• It is foreshadowing Elie’s death.

• It is ironic because the SS always loved hearing Juliek play his violin.

• It is a metaphor explaining how much Elie loves music.

1. What is the purpose of juxtaposing (laying side by side for comparison purposes) the two passages?

One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle.

Some years later, I watched the same kind of scene at Aden. The passengers on our boat were amusing themselves by throwing coins to the “natives,” who were diving in to get them. An attractive, aristocratic Parisienne was deriving special pleasure from the game. I suddenly noticed that two children were engaged in a death struggle, trying to strangle each other. I turned to the lady.

“Please,” I begged, “don’t throw any more money in!”

“Why not?” she said. “I like to give charity…” (73)

• to show lack of empathy may inspire cruelty

• to show war brings out the worst in others

• to show people do not appreciate generosity for others

• to show people's desire to perform for others