Final Exam: Night by Elie Wiesel

Accessible Assessment — Read each question carefully. Take your time.

Part 1: Multiple Choice (2 points each — 20 points)

Directions: Pick the best answer for each question. Circle or click your choice.

Part 2: True or False (2 points each — 10 points)

Directions: Read each sentence. Pick True or False.

Part 3: Letter Writing (70 points)

Your Task

Pretend you are Elie Wiesel after the war is over. Write a 3-paragraph letter to Moishe the Beadle. In your letter, tell Moishe what happened to you. Use the 3 key events below. Each paragraph starts with a piece of evidence. Then connect your thoughts using the sentence starters.

Rubric: Evidence use (15 pts) • Connection to events (15 pts) • Voice & feeling (10 pts) • Complete sentences (10 pts)

Paragraph 1 — Arrival at the Camp

Key Event: Elie was separated from his mother and sisters. He lied about his age to stay alive.

Evidence to start with:

"Men to the left! Women to the right!" These were the words that tore Elie's family apart at Auschwitz.

Sentence starters to help you:

  • "Dear Moishe, I wish I had listened to you because…"
  • "When we got off the train, they made us…"
  • "I told them I was eighteen because…"

Paragraph 2 — The Horrors Inside the Camp

Key Event: Elie saw a man murdered for crawling to the soup cauldron. He also watched a young Jewish boy be hanged.

Evidence to start with:

A prisoner crawled toward the soup cauldron during an air raid and was shot. Later, a young boy was hanged in front of everyone, and someone asked, "Where is God now?"

Sentence starters to help you:

  • "Moishe, the things I saw inside the camp were…"
  • "One day, a man was so hungry that he…"
  • "The hardest moment was when they hanged a boy and I thought…"

Paragraph 3 — The Death March and After

Key Event: Elie ran through the snow with his father, who later died. After being freed, Elie looked in a mirror and did not know who he was.

Evidence to start with:

Elie and his father ran for miles through freezing snow. His father grew weaker and died in the camp. When Elie was freed and looked in a mirror, he wrote, "A corpse gazed back at me."

Sentence starters to help you:

  • "After we left the camp, we had to run through…"
  • "My father was too weak and I felt…"
  • "When I looked in the mirror after it was all over, I saw…"

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