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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the importance of the knife and spoon given to Wiesel by his father in Chapter 5?
(a) It meant Elie's father now worked in the kitchen.
(b) It shows how little they had.
(c) It was a secret code between Elie and his father.
(d) It meant there would be a prayer meeting that night behind the kitchen.

2. In Chapter 3, why did Wiesel's father ask directions to the washroom?
(a) Elie's father needed to wash a blood stain from his shirt.
(b) A friend of Elie's father was ill.
(c) He needed to wash a wound.
(d) He was ill with colic.

3. When a workman threw a piece of bread to the prisoners, how did the prisoners react in Chapter 7?
(a) They drew straws to see who got the bread.
(b) They were too weak and indifferent to care.
(c) They fought over it.
(d) They threw it back at the workman.

4. In Chapter 3, what were the prisoners forced to do in the first prison block when they arrived at Auschwitz?
(a) Stand in formation for over an hour.
(b) Shower and then shiver and wait in the cold night.
(c) Run laps.
(d) Clean the entire prison block, top to bottom.

5. What profession did Wiesel claim in Chapter 3?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Student.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Storekeeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "selection"?

2. What was the reaction of the person Wiesel spoke to at the event that reminds him of the workman throwing bread to the prisoners?

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

4. What season was ending at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. What filled the prisoners' brains at the beginning of Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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