Night Ch. 8 Review

Which of the following statements does Elie's father say to Elie, showing that his father knows the end is near?

• He told Elie to find their family when he gets out.
• He told Elie that he loves him.
• He told Elie to look in the cellar where he did the family's gold and silver.
• He told Elie to go to Israel.

Which of the following statements best explains the reason why his fellow prisoners start beating Eliezer’s father?

• Eliezer’s father has become combative, and he lashes out at the other prisoners when they walk by.
• Eliezer's father has given up and asks the other prisoners to beat him hoping the might die sooner.
• The fellow prisoners are mad at Elie for not giving them his rations, so they beat his father in retaliation.
• The fellow prisoners beat Eliezer’s father because he can no longer go outside to use the bathroom, so he smells very bad.

Elie feels that he failed the test just like Rabbi Eliahu's son. Which of the following statements best supports Elie's feeling?

• Eliezer grudgingly gives his father his soup ration, so he feels like he has failed to be a good son just like Rabbi Eliahu’s son.
• Eliezer wants to help his father, but he refuses to go to the doctor, stop drinking water, or eat his soup.
• Eliezer refuses to take care of his father any longer because it costing him too much strength, and he wants to survive.
• Eliezer does not go to his father when he called out to him, and then his father dies.

Which of the following statements best explains the reason why the Blockälteste gave Elie advice about his father?

• The Blockälteste wants to help Eliezer save his father by providing him with extra rations.
• The Blockälteste believes Eliezer is more likely to survive if he stops giving his rations to his father.
• The Blockälteste wants Eliezer to give him his rations so that he can eat them himself.
• The Blockälteste is planning a revolt, and he wants Eliezer to be a part of it because he knows the camp so well.

What were Elie's father's last words?

• "Free at last."
• "Goodbye, my son."
• "Eliezer."
• "I'm burning up."

When does Elie see his father for the last time?

• November 11, 1944
• January 28, 1945
• April 11, 1945
• June 2, 1945

Put the following events in order (1-4):

• Elie tries to care for his father who is very sick with dysentery.

• Elie and the other prisoners are rushed towards the blocks and Elie loses his father.

• Elie wakes up, and someone eles is on his father's cot. His father was dead and had been taken away during the night.

• At the entrance to Buchenwald, the SS officers order the prisoners into ranks of 5 and groups of 100.