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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 were in the fortunate group.
(b) He thought they would be shot immediately.
(c) He believed they were being sent to the crematory.
(d) He believed that he and his father would be separated.

2. In Chapter 3, what happened to the Jews at Birkenau once they left the train?
(a) The men and women were separated.
(b) They were given food and water.
(c) The children and adults were separated.
(d) They were sent directly to hard labor in a rock quarry.

3. 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 shot.
(d) They were immediately sent to the furnace.

4. Where did Moshe the Beadle work?
(a) He taught religion at a high school.
(b) With Elie's father.
(c) He did not have a job.
(d) A Hasidic synagogue.

5. Several months after Moshe the Beadle and the other foreign Jews were deported, what happened to life in Sighet?
(a) The community leaders planned a large celebration.
(b) The town became crime-ridden and economically depressed.
(c) Virtually everyone left Sighet.
(d) Life returned to normal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In particular, what did the occupants of the cattle car need in Chapter 2?

2. In Chapter 3, what lie did Wiesel tell a man who was looking for Wiesel of Sighat?

3. In Chapter 2, at one of the train stops, what were the occupants allowed to have?

4. What troubling news did the people of Sighet learn in the spring of 1944?

5. In the spring of 1944, what did Elie wish his father would do?

(see the answer key)

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