Night Sections 2-3 Reading Comprehension

To what did Eliezer compare the world?

• to a blind and deaf person

• to a large hole in the ground

• to a hermetically sealed cattle wagon

• to a Bible story of the Jews in slavery

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What did Madame Schachter see in her visions?

True or False: Some of the young men tied Madame Schachter up and gagged her. Then they beat her.

• True

• False

When the Jews arrived at Birkenau-Auschwitz, what did they see out of the train window?

• several large factories

• lines of soldiers with truncheons, ready to club them

• flames gushing out of a tall chimney/furnace

• wagons full of dead bodies

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

What did Eliezer say about the travelers' illusions?

• They left them in the Sighet ghetto

• They were still clinging to their illusions

• The left them on the train, along with their cherished objects.

• The Nazis made them give up their illusions.

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

Which notorious SS officer did the meet at Birkenau-Auschwitz?

• Adolf Hitler

• Eichmann

• General Kolomaye

• Dr. Mengele

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What was Eliezer's main thought as the men and women were being herded from the train?

• To stay with his father at all costs.

• To stay alive at all costs.

• To keep his religious faith at all costs.

• To be as brave as possible.

True or False: People were reciting the Kaddish for themselves.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

True or False: Eliezer beat up the Gypsy guard who struck his father.

• True

• False

Which statement is true?

• They went to Birkenau, then to Bergen Belsen, then to Auschwitz

• They stayed at Nuremberg for one month

• The stayed at Galacia for six days, then went to Birkenau

• They were at Auschwitz for three weeks. Then they went to Buna.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL. 11-12.9