Night, Chap, 7 (pages 98-103)
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- Q1
What almost happens to Elie's dad at the stop on the train car?
Elie does nothing to defend his father.
He is almost thrown out of the car for being assumed dead.
He is sent for absecond selection to see if he is capable of going on.
He is beaten for being too weak.
60s - Q2
Elie mournfully explains, "Twenty corpses were thrown from our wagon. Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without at tomb." What does the phrasing "naked orphans without a tomb mean"?
It is better they died on the cattle car and where thrown out here instead of disposed of at a camp.
These poor people will never see their homes again.
They are "orphaned" because they have abandoned their face.
These poor people have been denied proper burial since they have been abandoned at death.
60s - Q3
Years after the Holocaust, Elie witnesses tourists throwing coins at starving children. One lady ironically calls her act "charity." This act of "charity" makes Elie recall another one that happened on the train?
Nazis stopped the train once a day to provide water.
Bread is thrown into the train in which many fight for it.
Despite dehumanization, he see the prisoners of the cattle car share bread.
Nazis stopped the train once a day for a meal.
60s - Q4
Elie uses the following metaphor to describe behavior in the train: "Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes. An extraordinary vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails." What theme does this metaphor support?
Lack of humanity for fellow prisoners is understandable during the Holocaust.
Humanity is doomed when people act like animals.
People always act like animals in high pressure situations.
When reduced to the physical level of basic survival, people will lose all humanity in their desire for survival of the fittest.
60s - Q5
What does the word "emaciated" mean in the following sentence?: "And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread."
Cruel and vicious
Starved and thin
Lazy
Dehumanized
60s - Q6
What other act of violence does Elie witness a son perform on his father?
A son takes his father's water
A son kills his father for a piece of bread
A son has his father thrown off the cattle car
A son turns his back on his father's cry for help
60s - Q7
From the previous chapter during the "Death March," what other act of cruelty does a son inflict on his father?
He leaves his father behind because he is going too slow.
He leaves his father to die in the snow.
He tells a guard to shoot his father.
He leaves his sick father behind in the hospital.
60s - Q8
Elie and his father continue to display a relationship where they are mutually even in taking care of each other. Elie saves his father in the beginning of the chapter. At the end, the father saves the son by doing what?
Calling on Meir Katz to keep Elie from being thrown from the car.
Getting Meir Katz to help him steal food for his son
Giving Elie a knife and spoon as his inheritance.
Calling on Meir Katz to save Elie from a man trying to strangle him.
60s - Q9
Instead of Juliek playing the funeral song, what is the song in this chapter?
All of the Jews begging the Nazis for mercy
All of the Jews saying the prayer for the dead
All of the Jews begging to be shot
All of the Jews crying like wounded animals
60s - Q10
Which explanation ties the following quote to the symbolism of the book's title?: "Nobody had any strength left. And the night seemed endless."
Their misery and suffering was severe that the they thought the next day would never come. The night prolongs their miserable existence.
Long nights give way to long days on the train.
They are waiting for day because dawn will bring better circumstances.
Everyone wants to die and slip into eternal night/darkness.
60s