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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the initial reaction of the men in the train car to Madame Schachter's screams in Chapter 2?
(a) They peeked through the bars but saw nothing.
(b) They tried to comfort her.
(c) They ignored her.
(d) They threatened to throw her from the train.

2. In Chapter 2, what was the first thing the Jews swa as the train stopped before they got off?
(a) Fire.
(b) occupants of the camp lined up in formation.
(c) Barbed wire.
(d) Men and women digging in a rock quarry.

3. How did Moshe tell Weisel he escaped the Gestapo in 1944?
(a) He was shot in the leg and left for dead.
(b) He disguised himself as a Gestapo agent.
(c) He agreed to kill the Jews who were on his truck.
(d) He stole a truck.

4. What was Wiesel's reaction to the thick soup offered to him the day after arriving at Auschwitz in Chapter 3?
(a) He threw it back at the server.
(b) He eagerly consumed it.
(c) He ate it, and then he vomited.
(d) He refused to eat it.

5. What did Madame Schachter do after the confrontation with the men on the train?
(a) She became extremely violent.
(b) She continued to be hysterical.
(c) She finally calmed down.
(d) She became eerily quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the name Auschwitz mean to the occupants of the cattle car in Chapter 2?

2. After the war when Wiesel met the woman who pretended to be Aryan rather than a Jew at the concentration camp, what did she tell him?

3. In Chapter 4, what was Wiesel's job in the camp?

4. What did some of the young do in Chapter 2 under the cover of darkness?

5. What were the conditions for the Jews on the train in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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