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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Wiesel know Madame Schachter so well?
(a) She often visited his family's home.
(b) She was sitting next to him during the long train trip.
(c) She was his aunt.
(d) She was his teacher.

2. What is Birkenau in Chapter 2?
(a) The reception area for Kaschau.
(b) The reception area for Bergen-Belsen.
(c) The reception area for Dachau.
(d) The reception area for Auschwitz.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Madame Schachter's frame of mind as she screamed on the cattle car in Chapter 2?

2. What happened to Madame Schachter as a result of the train trip in Chapter 2?

3. What were the conditions inside the synagogue while Wiesel's group stayed there?

4. After tiring of her screams, what did the men finally do to quiet Madame Schachter?

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

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