How is culture reflected in the behavior in concentration camps in Night?  Use details and/or examples from the text as support.

2        Response includes a complete and reasonable explanation

      of how culture is reflected in the behavior in concentration

      camps and uses details and/or examples from the text

      as support.

1        Response includes a reasonable explanation of how culture is reflected in the behavior in concentration camps

      but details are overly general, simplistic, or lacks details.

0        Other

In this unit we have read many stories in which characters face problems.  You also face problems in your own life. Which character from the readings in this unit are you most like when you face adversity?  Use details and/or examples from the selection in which your character appears and from your own life to support your answer.

2  Response includes a complete and reasonable comparison between self and character in the text and uses details and/or examples from the text and personal experience to support the answer.

1  Response includes a reasonable comparison between self and character in the text but details are overly general or simplistic OR only one supporting detail is given.

0 Other

Evaluate the use of ethnic cleansing as a solution for solving the social problems during the time of the Holocaust.  Use details and/or examples from the novel Night as support.

2    Response includes a complete and reasonable explanation

      of the appropriateness/inappropriateness of ethnic

      cleansing as a solution for solving the social problems of

      the time and uses details and/or examples from the text

      as support.

1        Response includes a reasonable explanation of the

      appropriateness/inappropriateness of ethnic cleansing but

      details are overly general, simplistic, or lacks details.

0    Other

In an appropriate graphic organizer, compare and contrast the themes, settings, and points of view in both Night and “Gary Keillor.” Use details and/or examples from the text to support your answer.

Graphic organizers: 1 point = Correct graphic organizer is used. Information is placed in appropriate format to show relationship of ideas. Appropriate labels are used. 

0 = Other 

Content: 6 points total—two points each for the following elements: A)Graphic organizer contains at least one comparison and one corresponding difference between themes in the selections; B) at least one comparison and one corresponding difference between settings in the selections, and C) at least one comparison and one corresponding difference between points of view in the selections. 

0 points Other 

Evaluate the logic of the Jews’ refusal to believe Moshe the Beadle on his return from the forest near Galicia (chapter 1 of Night).  Use details and/or examples from the text to support your answer.

2        Response includes a complete and reasonable evaluation

      of the logic of the Jews’ refusal to believe Moshe and uses

      details and/or examples from the text as support.

1        Response includes a reasonable evaluation of the logic of the Jews’ refusal to believe Moshe but details are overly general or simplistic OR only one detail is given.

Evaluate the appropriateness of the title “Night” for Elie Wiesel’s book.  Explain why you believe it to be an effective or ineffective title using details and/or examples from the text to support your answer.

2 points—The response includes a complete and reasonable evaluation of the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of the title and uses details and/or examples from the text as support.

1 point—The response includes a reasonable evaluation of the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of the title but details are overly general and/or simplistic OR only one supporting detail is given.

0- other

When writing a fiction text, how do authors typically organize subsections of their text?

A.     stanzas

B.     chapters

C.     graphs

1 point=  Answer B

0 points= Other

In one of the final chapters of the book Juliek plays the violin as he dies. Why might Wiesel include this scenario in his book?   What does it add to the story stylistically?  Use details and/or examples from the test to support your answer.

2 points—The response includes a complete and reasonable explanation for why Wiesel might add the scenario AND what it adds stylistically and uses details and/or examples from the text as support.

1 point—The response includes a reasonable explanation for why Wiesel might add the scenario AND what it adds stylistically but details are overly general and/or simplistic OR only one supporting detail is given.

0-other