AP ENGLISH III Night Midterm Part 2

Read pgs 6-9 which begins "And then, one day all foreign Jews" & ends with "German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets" carefully before you choose your answer.

The tone of the speaker in the third paragraph ("What do you expect" That's war...") could best be described as

• exasperated

• resigned

• inquisitive

• despairing

• sneering

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Passage 1. In the two paragraphs that describe the daily routine in Sighet on page 6 (beginning "Days went by" and "I continued to devote"),

this routine is conveyed primarily through the use of

• metaphor

• ellipsis

• parallelism

• sentence fragments

• understatement

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Passage 2. Read the passage from the first section of

Night which begins “ANGUISH. German soldiers” and ends “Then came the ghettos” (pages 9-11) carefully before you choose your answer.



In relation to the first word of the passage, the sentence fragment that follows it (“German soldiers . . . emblem”) serves to

• explain it

• define it

• intensity it

• qualify it

• reiterate it

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Passage 2. Read the passage from the first section of Night which begins “ANGUISH. German soldiers” and ends “Then came the ghettos” (pages 9-11).

In the paragraph beginning “The Germans were already in our town,” the narrator’s attitude toward the Jews’ response could best be described as

• indignant

• rueful

• admiring

• incredulous

• jocular

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Passage 3. Read the passage from the second section of Night which begins “There was a woman among us” and ends “We had arrived. In Birkenau.” (pages 24-28) carefully before you choose your answer.

The narrator’s statement “Nobody had ever heard that name” primarily serves to

• reveal how little the Jews of Sighet had traveled previously

• underscore that the train has arrived in Germany

• provide foreshadowing of future events

• introduce a sense of dramatic irony

• emphasize that this is an extremely remote place

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Passage 7. Read the passage from the fifth section of Night which begins “A few days passed” and ends “we forgot to say Kaddish” (pages 73-77) carefully before you choose your answer.

The narrator’s thought, “My inheritance,” underscores his

• frustration over their impoverishment

• gratitude for his father’s unselfishness

• incredulity that his father is concerned with material objects at this time

• belief that his father is most likely going to his death

• anger that his father has seemingly given up hope

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Passage 10. Read the passage from the seventh section of Night which begins “We received no food” and ends “We had arrived in Buchenwald” (pages 100-103) carefully before you choose your answer.

The tone of the first paragraph could best be described as

• rancorous

• despairing

• dispassionate

• bombastic

• frantic

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Passage 12. Read the passage from the eighth and ninth sections of Night which begins “A week went by like that” and ends “The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me” (pages 110-115) carefully before you choose your answer.

The paragraph beginning “‘Listen to me, kid’” reveals the Blockälteste’s

• cynicism

• cold-heartedness

• pompousness

• barbarity

• pragmatist

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Read the passage from the eighth and ninth sections of Night which begins “A week went by like that” and ends “The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me” (pages 110-115) carefully before you choose your answer.

In the final section, the narrator’s emphasis on the lack of any thought of revenge suggests that he

• found this lack of a thirst for revenge to be surprising

• wants to emphasize that the Jews are a peaceful people

• had forgiven his captors, as had his fellow prisoners

• understood that staying alive was much more important than revenge

• intended to get revenge through his writing, not through use of force

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Elie Wiesel recounts that on the night of his father’s death, “I remained more than an hour leaning over him, looking at him, etching his bloody, broken face into my mind.” The young Eliezer was determined to remember so that later he could tell the world the story of his father’s death and of the atrocities he and others endured in the Nazi death camps. Early in the book, Moishe the Beadle virtually comes “back from the dead,” determined to share his memories with the community (“I wanted to return ... to describe to you my death”).

In a well-organized response, discuss the importance of memory as it is revealed in Night, particularly the importance of sharing significant memories with others. In your discussion, include a consideration of the various functions such sharing can serve.

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