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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At Birkenau, what did a fellow prisoner tell Wiesel and his father to do?
(a) Lie about their ages.
(b) Be sure to tell the truth about their ages.
(c) Keep their eyes averted downward at all times.
(d) Smile.

2. After the Germans arrested the Jewish leaders during Passover, what were the Jews required to do?
(a) Remain in their houses for three days.
(b) Immediately surrender all their possessions.
(c) Attend formation every morning at dawn.
(d) Leave the town and find their own accommodations.

3. What did the chimney represent for the prisoners in Chapter 3?
(a) Warmth.
(b) Death.
(c) Work.
(d) Food.

4. How did Wiesel's father respond to the order that Jews were not allowed to keep valuables in the house?
(a) He gave their savings to a relative who could safely hide them.
(b) He surrendered their valuables to the Germans.
(c) He buried their savings in the basement.
(d) He destroyed their valuables rather that surrender them.

5. 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.

6. Where did Wiesel's group stay after being forced out of the ghetto?
(a) In the middle of a field.
(b) A deserted warehouse.
(c) The main synagogue.
(d) The railroad station.

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

8. According to the German officer in Chapter 2, what happened to any Jews who kept their valuables?
(a) They were separated from their relatives.
(b) They were permitted to keep half their valuables.
(c) They were immediately sent to the furnace.
(d) They were shot.

9. 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 yelled racial slurs back at the attacker.
(b) He should have run and hid.
(c) He should have attacked the assailant.
(d) He should have repeated the question.

10. What interests did Moshe and Wiesel share?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Playing board games.
(c) Plotting against the Gestapo.
(d) Discussing philosophy.

11. Madame Schachter traveled with whom in Chapter 2?
(a) Her ten-year-old daughter.
(b) Her ten-year-old son.
(c) No one.
(d) Her husband and two oldest sons.

12. How did Madame Schachter react when the train began moving again in Chapter 2?
(a) She sat quietly in a corner of the train car.
(b) She fell asleep.
(c) She began to scream again.
(d) She became unconscious from her illness.

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

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

15. Why was the dentist who did not pull Elie's tooth arrested in Chapter 4?
(a) For threatening Elie's father.
(b) For putting prisoners' fillings in guards' teeth.
(c) For trafficking gold teeth.
(d) For not pulling Elie's severely infected tooth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Mrs. Schachter?

2. What was Wiesel's reaction to the thick soup offered to him the day after arriving at Auschwitz in Chapter 3?

3. What is Birkenau in Chapter 2?

4. What was another requirement the Jews must adhere to, regarding their clothing?

5. In Chapter 2, what is Auschwitz?

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