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Night-chapter 4 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the objectives of the medical examinations? | The medical examinations were used to weed out sick prisoners who would not be able to work, and to look for gold fillings that could be confiscated. |
| Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by Beethoven? | The soldiers would not allow Jewish musicians to play Beethoven because he was a German composer and they did not feel the Jews were worthy of playing music from a German composer. |
| Describe one of Idek's bouts of madness. | At one point Idek's beats Elie's father with a pipe, and another time he whips Elie 25 times for spying on him. |
| How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown? | He pretended that he was sick. |
| Who did Elie meet years later on the Paris Metro? | He met the young woman that he had seen in the concentration camp. |
| What happened when Elie refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result? | When he refused to give up his crown, Franek beat him, and then eventually had his tooth removed with a rusty spoon. |
| Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons. | During an air raid, a prisoner tried to crawl along the ground to eat some soup out of the cauldrons. |
| During one of the preliminary "ceremonies" for a hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest? | Juliek wanted to know when this was going to be over because he was hungry. It suggested that he was completely numb to the hanging that he was witnessing. |
| Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons. | During an air raid, a prisoner tried to crawl along the ground to eat some soup out of the cauldrons. |
| During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from the others? | This hanging was difficult to watch because it was a younger child, and the boy suffered because he did not have enough weight to be killed quickly by the hanging. |