Question
In this excerpt, Elie Wiesel describes being moved from one concentration camp to another. He and other Jewish prisoners were relocated because Nazis feared that Russian soldiers were closing in.
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 a tomb.
WE RECEIVED no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness. The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued. It never stopped snowing. We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.
–Night,
Elie Wiesel
Read the excerpt from Night, then answer the question.
Which statements provide evidence that the conditions on the train were awful? Choose four correct answers.
“Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.”
“We lived on snow; it took the place of bread.”
“The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued.”
“We remained lying on the floor for days and nights.”
“We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.”
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 a tomb.
WE RECEIVED no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness. The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued. It never stopped snowing. We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.
–Night,
Elie Wiesel
Read the excerpt from Night, then answer the question.
Which statements provide evidence that the conditions on the train were awful? Choose four correct answers.
“Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.”
“We lived on snow; it took the place of bread.”
“The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued.”
“We remained lying on the floor for days and nights.”
“We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.”
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The four statements that provide evidence that the conditions on the train were awful are:
1. “Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.”
2. “We lived on snow; it took the place of bread.”
3. “We remained lying on the floor for days and nights.”
4. “We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.”
1. “Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.”
2. “We lived on snow; it took the place of bread.”
3. “We remained lying on the floor for days and nights.”
4. “We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.”