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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wiesel believe when he and his father were sent to the right after telling their ages to the officer at Birkenau?
(a) He thought they would be shot immediately.
(b) He thought they were in the fortunate group.
(c) He believed that he and his father would be separated.
(d) He believed they were being sent to the crematory.

2. In Chapter 3, how did Wiesel feel that he should have handled the results of his father asking about the washroom?
(a) He should have repeated the question.
(b) He should have yelled racial slurs back at the attacker.
(c) He should have attacked the assailant.
(d) He should have run and hid.

3. What was Moishe the Beadle's economic status?
(a) Upper middle class.
(b) Upper class.
(c) Middle class.
(d) Penury.

4. In Chapter 2, at one of the train stops, what were the occupants allowed to have?
(a) Water.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Showers.
(d) Fresh clothing.

5. In particular, what did the occupants of the cattle car need in Chapter 2?
(a) Warm clothing.
(b) Water.
(c) Chairs.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say the cattle car is in Chapter 2?

2. Madame Schachter traveled with whom in Chapter 2?

3. How did Wiesel know Madame Schachter so well?

4. How were the Jews supposed to get to the next prison block at Auschwitz?

5. In Chapter 3, what lie did Wiesel tell a man who was looking for Wiesel of Sighat?

(see the answer key)

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