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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) He was ill with colic.
(c) A friend of Elie's father was ill.
(d) He needed to wash a wound.

2. How did the German officers keep anyone from escaping from the train in Chapter 2?
(a) They threatened to withhold everyone's food and water.
(b) There was one officer to guard each Jew.
(c) They threatened to shoot everyone if even one person escaped.
(d) They threatened to send everyone to the furnace.

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

4. When did Wiesel meet Moishe?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1938.

5. What was Wiesel's reaction to the thick soup offered to him the day after arriving at Auschwitz in Chapter 3?
(a) He refused to eat it.
(b) He threw it back at the server.
(c) He eagerly consumed it.
(d) He ate it, and then he vomited.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, how did Wiesel feel that he should have handled the results of his father asking about the washroom?

2. In Chapter 2, first, what did Madame Schachter cry and moan about?

3. What did Wiesel's family do while living in their house in the ghetto?

4. In Chapter 1, what did Wiesel like about Moishe?

5. In Chapter 3, what did Wiesel see in the flames of the crematory?

(see the answer key)

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