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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Elie's reaction to the foreman's demand in Chapter 4?
(a) Elie refused to give the foreman his tooth.
(b) Elie refused to smuggle food.
(c) Elie agreed to smuggle soap.
(d) Elie agreed to steal electrical parts.

2. What is "selection"?
(a) The process of selecting prisoners for new jobs.
(b) The process of choosing who is released from the camp.
(c) The process of selecting new prisoners to enter the camp.
(d) The process of separating the healthy from the weak.

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

4. In Chapter 4 why was speaking German to Wiesel at the camp so risky for a young female prisoner?
(a) She could have been killed for speaking German.
(b) She did not know if Elie could understand her German.
(c) The authorities would have realized she was Jewish.
(d) She was afraid of Elie's reaction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, how many crematoria work day and night?

2. What happened to the foreign Jews in Sighet when the Hungarian police arrived?

3. In Chapter 3, who was in charge of Wiesel, his father, and the other prisoners in the prison block?

4. How many words were spoken as the prisoners leave the train in Chapter 3?

5. What happened after the round of selection in which Wiesel's father's number was called in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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