Night Ch. 7-9

unable to think or act clearly due to fever or mental confusion

• contagious

• delirious

• elude

• emaciated

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which of the following statements best explains the impact on Eliezer’s father when his fellow prisoners start beating him?

• Eliezer’s father fights back, and he is beaten very badly by his fellow prisoners.

• The beatings give Eliezer’s father one less reason to try to keep on living.

• Eliezer offers the prisoners his rations so that they will stop beating his father, but they refuse.

• The fellow prisoners beat Eliezer’s father because he can no longer go outside to use the bathroom, so he smells very bad.

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

never done before

• unprecedented

• provision

• prostrate

• lament

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which statement best explains why Meir Katz died on the train even though he was stronger and healthier than most of the prisoners because he worked in the garden?

• Meir Katz defied the Nazis by giving extra bread rations to the prisoners, so he was executed.

• Meir Katz was suffering from dysentery, and he drank too much water, so he died.

• Meir Katz was killed when he tried to stop another man from strangling Eliezer for no reason.

• Meir Katz died because he lost the will to go on after his son was taken from him during a selection.

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

an expression of sorrow or grief

• grimace

• lament

• prostrate

• provision

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Choose the best sentence to add descriptive detail to the end of the paragraph on page 109 when Eliezer feels enraged that the doctor won’t care for his sick father.

• “Even though I was full of terrible rage, none of it could escape me, and nothing could help.”

• “I would have been less angry if the doctor had been more helpful.”

• “Auschwitz was the most hellish place you can imagine on Earth.”

• “I thought of my mother and my sisters and how they might be sick, too.”

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL. 11-12.9

a contorted facial expression denoting disgust, disapproval, or pain

• grimace

• lament

• prostrate

• provision

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which of the following statements best explains the reason why Eliezer’s fellow prisoner gave him the advice about his father on page 110?

• The prisoner wants to help Eliezer save his father by providing him with extra rations.

• The prisoner believes Eliezer is more likely to survive if he stops giving his rations to his father.

• The prisoner wants Eliezer to give him his rations so that he can eat them himself.

• The prisoner is planning a revolt, and he wants Eliezer to be a part of it because he knows the camp so well.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

something necessary supplied or provided

• grimace

• lament

• prostrate

• provision

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which of the following statements best describes the author’s purpose for concluding the book with Eliezer looking at himself in the mirror?

• To show that he survived the war even though his father did not

• To compare and contrast Eliezer’s current physique to how he looked when he left the ghetto

• To tell the reader that Eliezer is still haunted by his experiences today

• To describe the enduring strength of the human spirit in desperate times

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6