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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what was Wiesel's father's frame of mind?
(a) He was insane.
(b) He was desperate for Elie to survive.
(c) He was giving up on life.
(d) He was extremely angry.

3. What was the reaction of the person Wiesel spoke to at the event that reminds him of the workman throwing bread to the prisoners?
(a) The person told Elie to mind his own business.
(b) The person thought it was an act of charity.
(c) The person tried to stab Elie.
(d) The person completely ignored Elie.

4. Why did Wiesel's father make the request he did at the concentration camp in Chapter 8?
(a) He desperately needed medicine.
(b) He wanted Wiesel to have a chance for survival.
(c) He was exhausted.
(d) He wanted to be with his wife and daughter.

5. As the prisoners took refuge in a deserted village after the evacuation, where did Elie find himself?
(a) Crushed in a pile of dying prisoners.
(b) Lying under a collapsed wall.
(c) Lying next to a dead SS officer.
(d) Buried in a snowpile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Wiesel and his father decide to do after hearing that the Russians may be approaching the camp in Chapter 5?

3. After the war when Wiesel met the woman who pretended to be Aryan rather than a Jew at the concentration camp, what did she tell him?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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