
Night Chapter 5
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8th Grade
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This quiz focuses on Chapter 5 of Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night," covering critical events during Wiesel's imprisonment at the Buna concentration camp. The content is appropriate for 8th grade students studying Holocaust literature and requires students to demonstrate reading comprehension, character analysis, and understanding of historical context. Students must recall specific plot details including Elie's crisis of faith during Yom Kippur, the selection process that determined life or death for prisoners, family relationships under extreme duress, and the evacuation of Buna as Soviet forces approached. The questions assess students' ability to understand complex moral dilemmas, interpret character motivations, and recognize the broader historical significance of events within the narrative. Students need strong literal comprehension skills to identify specific textual evidence, as well as inferential thinking to understand the psychological and spiritual impact of the Holocaust experience on individuals and relationships. Created by an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 8, this quiz serves as an effective formative assessment tool for students reading this pivotal chapter of "Night." The quiz can be implemented as a post-reading comprehension check, homework assignment, or review activity before class discussions about faith, survival, and moral complexity during the Holocaust. Teachers can use this assessment to gauge student understanding before facilitating deeper analytical conversations about Wiesel's loss of faith, the impossible choices faced by concentration camp prisoners, and the irony of liberation. The multiple-choice format allows for quick assessment of basic comprehension while the content prepares students for more sophisticated literary analysis. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1 for citing textual evidence, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.3 for analyzing character development, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.9 for analyzing how modern works of literature draw upon themes from traditional texts and historical events.
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Why didn't Elie fast on Yom Kippur? (Choose two)
To please his father because he forbid Elie to fast since he'd die.
He is being tested religiously and thinking that he shouldn't fast
He is starving and wants to eat.
He ate breakfast before he realized that it was Yom Kippur
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.9
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What advice was Elie given to pass the selection process?
Run as fast as you can-run as if the devil himself were chasing you.
Don't look at the S.S. officers.
Don't let them see your left arm
all of the above
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.W.8.9A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
How did Elie's father respond when he learned his name had been written down?
He was afraid
He wanted to live and stay with Elie
He wanted Elie to take a knife and a spoon as an inheritance
All of the above
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What did Akiba Drumer ask the others to do for him? Did they do it?
To recite the Kaddish after 3 days. No because they forgot.
To give him a ration of bread. No
That if he didn't make it, to find his wife and tell her that he loved her. Yes
None of the above
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.9
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Why was Elie placed in the hospital?
His foot was swelling because of the cold. He had to get an operation.
He as an allergy to peppermints,which are notorious for being quick acting and powerful,so he had to get rid of his hives and tongue lisp.
He was taken to the hospital to have an cranioectomy operated on him.
He had a runny nose
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.5.10
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Why was the camp to be evacuated?
The Red army or the Russians were coming to liberate them
Because they were being bombed
Because it was a drill
none of the above
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.5.10
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Why were Elie and his father, Chlomo, hesitant about leaving Buna?
Because Elie didn't want to leave the French girl behind
Because Elie's foot was hurt
Because they liked Buna a lot
none of the above
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.W.8.9A
CCSS.RL.8.3
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