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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the responsibility of the men who cleared out the wagons?
(a) They repaired the wagons.
(b) They took out the dead and burried them.
(c) They scoured the wagons with boiling water.
(d) They rotated the prisoners between the wagons.

2. As the prisoners traveled on the train in Chapter 7, what did they eat?
(a) Bread.
(b) Rotten meat.
(c) Snow.
(d) Soup.

3. What did Wiesel need to do because of his leg in Chapter 5?
(a) Have surgery.
(b) Plead with the doctor to keep his injury a secret.
(c) Hide his injury.
(d) Go through the selection process again.

4. What was Wiesel's feeling about the scene after the workman throws the bread in Chapter 7?
(a) Relief.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Uncaring.
(d) Sadness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to give themselves hope, what did Wiesel and his father pretend after spending several weeks in Auschwitz in Chapter 3?

2. What did Wiesel believe when he and his father were sent to the right after telling their ages to the officer at Birkenau?

3. What profession did Wiesel claim in Chapter 3?

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

5. In particular, what part of the occurrence that Wiesel witnessed later in life reminiscent of the workman throwing bread to the prisoners caused his reaction?

(see the answer key)

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