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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did it take for the conditions on the train in Chapter 2 to become intolerable?
(a) Two days.
(b) Three days.
(c) One day.
(d) Four days.

2. What did the SS officers call the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Flea-bitten corpses.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Rats.
(d) Flea-ridden dogs.

3. How old was Mrs. Schachter?
(a) 40s.
(b) 20s.
(c) 30s.
(d) 50s.

4. What did Wiesel's family do while living in their house in the ghetto?
(a) They offered rooms to relatives who had lost their homes.
(b) They gave their valuables to relatives who could hide them.
(c) They were forced to cook for the German soldiers.
(d) They hid Jews who were trying to escape.

5. In order to give themselves hope, what did Wiesel and his father pretend after spending several weeks in Auschwitz in Chapter 3?
(a) That they were on a secret mission.
(b) That Wiesel's mother and Tzipora were in a labor camp, not dead.
(c) That they were not frightened.
(d) That the experience was just a dream, and that they would awaken soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what was waiting for the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What did Wisel wonder about on the morning of January 29, 1945?

3. In Chapter 2, what was the first thing the Jews swa as the train stopped before they got off?

4. How did the German officers keep anyone from escaping from the train in Chapter 2?

5. In Chapter 3, when Wiesel's father asked directions to the washroom, what happened to him?

(see the answer key)

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