Night AP questions passage 1-3

PASSAGE 1 Q: 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

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

• metaphor

• ellipsis

• parallelism

• sentence fragments

• understatement

PASSAGE 1 Q. In the paragraph beginning “He told me what had happened,” Moishe the Beadle’s story is told

• in a straightforward manner

• with an increasing sense of urgency

• with a great sense of drama

• in such a way that suspense builds

• with no regard for chronology

PASSAGE 1 Q. In the paragraph beginning “Even I did not believe him,” the “pity” the narrator feels is for

• the people whose murders Moishe witnessed

• the Jews of Sighet, who do not know what to believe

• Moishe the Beadle, to whom no one will listen

• himself for being Moishe’s unwilling confidant

• the people who actually believe Moishe has gone mad

PASSAGE 1 Q. From the beginning of the passage to the sentence “Thus passed the year 1943,” it is clear that the

people of Sighet place the highest value on

• their religious faith

• a sense of normalcy

• the smooth running of business

• marriage and children

• family togetherness

PASSAGE 1 Q. The short paragraph beginning "And thus my elders" presents an example of

• allusion

• hyperbole

• antithesis

• simile

• foreshadowing

P1. The Jews of Sighet maintain their denial by means of all of the following EXCEPT

• listening to news reports

• reasoning that a modern genocide would be impossible

• focusing on regular activities and occasions

• seeking eyewitness accounts from those who have been to the capital

• speculating about military strategy

PASSAGE 1 Q. In context of the passage as a whole, the words of the narrator's father ("I am too old... distant land")

• euphemistic

• sarcastic

• prescient

• realistic

• ironic

PASSAGE 2 Q. In relation to the first word of the passage, the sentence fragment that follows it ("German soldiers... emblem") serves to

• explain it

• define it

• intensify it

• qualify it

• reiterate it

P2. When they refer to "Your Germans," the speakers are addressing

• the narrator s family

• the Kahns

• the non-jewish residents of Sighet

• their more skeptical neighbors

• Moishe the Beadle