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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the conditions inside the synagogue while Wiesel's group stayed there?
(a) Spacious and clean.
(b) Drafty and damp.
(c) Crowded and unsanitary.
(d) Chaotic and noisy.

2. Where did Wiesel's group stay after being forced out of the ghetto?
(a) A deserted warehouse.
(b) The main synagogue.
(c) In the middle of a field.
(d) The railroad station.

3. How did the prisoners in Chapter 2, have to arrange themselves on the train?
(a) They all stood.
(b) They all sat crowded elbow-to-elbow.
(c) They crouched.
(d) Most stood up, some sat.

4. Madame Schachter traveled with whom in Chapter 2?
(a) No one.
(b) Her ten-year-old daughter.
(c) Her ten-year-old son.
(d) Her husband and two oldest sons.

5. How many prisoners were loaded into the cattle cars at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) 100.
(b) 80.
(c) 93.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the conditions for the Jews on the train in Chapter 2?

2. What interests did Moshe and Wiesel share?

3. How did Wiesel know Madame Schachter so well?

4. What did the name Auschwitz mean to the occupants of the cattle car in Chapter 2?

5. What was the condition of the main synagogue when Wiesel's group reached it?

(see the answer key)

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