Night Chapter 5

Which Jewish Holiday was being celebrated at the start of chapter 5?

• Shabbat

• Yom Kippur

• Rosh Hashanah

• Pesach

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

"SOME TEN THOUSAND MEN had come to participate in a solemn service, including the Blockälteste, the Kapos, all bureaucrats in the service of Death. 'Blessed be the Almighty…' The voice of the officiating inmate had just become audible. At first I thought it was the wind. 'Blessed be God's name… ' Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm." What type of figurative language is being used from the underlined sentence?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?

In days gone by, Rosh Hashanah had dominated my life. I knew that my sins grieved the Almighty and so I pleaded for forgiveness. In those days, I fully believed that the salvation of the world depended on every one of my deeds, on every one of my prayers. But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger." Which of the following BEST describes the main idea from this text?

• Ellie complains about God.

• Ellie realizes he is stronger than God.

• Ellie loses faith in God.

• Ellie no longer wants to pray.

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CCSS.RL.8.2

How did Ellie protest his rebellion towards God on Yom Kippur?

• He refused to fast

• He refused to pray

• He refused to work

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of "present" did the SS Officer offer Ellie and the rest of the camp shortly after Yom Kippur?

• Soup & Bread

• More Work

• Torture

• Selection

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

How did Ellie pass being "Selected" for the crematorium by SS Doctor, Dr.Mengele?

• He throw the largest stone

• He beat up Yossi

• He ran too fast

• He didn't get caught lying.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

"Here, take this _____," he said. "I won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. Also take this ______. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go ahead, take what I'm giving you!" My inheritance… "Don't talk like that, Father." I was on the verge of breaking into sobs. "I don't want you to say such things. Keep the _____ and ______. You will need them as much as I. We'll see each other tonight, after work." What two items did Ellie's father offer to him?

• Jacket and Hat

• Silver and Gold

• Ration and Soup

• Knife and Fork

• Knife and Spoon

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Around the middle of January, my right foot began to swell from the cold. I could not stand on it. I went to the infirmary. The doctor, a great Jewish doctor, a prisoner like ourselves, was categorical: "We have to operate! If we wait, the toes and perhaps the leg will have to be amputated." That was all I needed! But I had no choice. The doctor had decided to operate and there could be no discussion. In fact, I was rather glad that the decision had been his." Why was Ellie glad to be in the infirmary, despite the potential of losing a limb?

• White sheets, good bread, and thicker soup

• No more bells

• No more roll calls and no more work

• All of the above

• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

" TWO DAYS AFTER my operation, rumors swept through the camp that the battlefront had suddenly drawn nearer. The Red Army was racing toward Buna: it was only a matter of hours." What race primarily made up the Red Army?

• Italian

• Swiss

• Cheese

• American

• Russian

"IN THE MORNING, the camp did not look the same. The prisoners showed up in all kinds of strange garb; it looked like a masquerade. We each had put on several garments, one over the other, to better protect ourselves from the cold. Poor clowns, wider than tall, more dead than alive, poor creatures whose ghostly faces peeked out from layers of prisoner's clothes! Poor clowns! I tried to find a very large shoe. In vain. I tore my blanket and wrapped it around my foot. Then I went off to wander through the camp in search of a little more bread and a few potatoes. Some people said we would be going to Czechoslovakia. TWO O'CLOCK in the afternoon. The snow continued to fall heavily. Now the hours were passing quickly. Dusk had fallen. Daylight disappeared into a gray mist. Suddenly the Blockälteste remembered that we had forgotten to clean the block. He commanded four prisoners to mop the floor…One hour before leaving camp! Why? For whom? "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." What can you infer based on the former text?

• The Germans were extremely disorganized

• The Germans were losing the war

• Blockälteste wanted to befriend the Jewish prisoners

• Blockälteste didn't get enough sleep

• The Jews were celebrating Yom Kippur

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.W.8.9A