Night Excerpt 1

Where did Elie and his family live at the start of the excerpt?

• a ghetto

• Sighet

• Berlin

• Poland

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

When the Jews were first placed into the ghetto, how did they feel?

• scared of what was going to happen

• despair, because they knew they were going to die

• relief, that they no longer had to deal with the German soldiers

• anger at the Germans

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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

What opinion do Elie and the others have about their time in the ghetto?

• They will remain there until the end of the war.

• They will leave the ghetto for concentration camps.

• They will be killed in the ghetto.

• They will become prisoners of the Germans.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Where does Elie's father have to go?

• prison

• concentration camp

• home

• council meeting

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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

What news does Elie's father bring back from his meeting?

• they are to remain in the ghetto

• they are going to be deported

• the Red Army is coming to rescue them

• they are going to a concentration camp

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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

"The back yard became like the hall outside an operating room." What effect does this simile have on the reader?

• It shows the reader how nervous and tense the people were

• It makes the reader think that someone is going to die

• It foreshadows that someone is going to be taken to the hospital

• It shows the reader how painful the experience is for them

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

_____ is the only person who knows where the townspeople are going to be taken?

• Elie

• Elie's father

• the President of the Jewish Council

• Elie's mother

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is each person allowed to bring with him or her when they are deported?

• nothing

• everything they can carry

• a bag of personal belongings

• food

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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

"The shadows beside me awoke as from a long sleep. They fled silently in all directions." What are the shadows Elie refers to at the end of the excerpt?

• actual shadows

• the other people who were listening to his father

• demons

• the German soldiers

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

How does the tone of this excerpt change from start to finish?

• It starts with calm and ends with terror

• It starts with despair and ends with hope

• It starts with joy and ends with sadness

• It starts with peace and ends with anger

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4