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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Madame Schachter do after the confrontation with the men on the train?
(a) She became eerily quiet.
(b) She became extremely violent.
(c) She finally calmed down.
(d) She continued to be hysterical.

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

5. In Chapter 3, what did Wiesel see in the flames of the crematory?
(a) Moshe and Madame Schachter.
(b) Children and babies.
(c) His best friend from Sighet.
(d) His mother and sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Birkenau, what did a fellow prisoner tell Wiesel and his father to do?

2. What profession did Wiesel claim in Chapter 3?

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

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

5. Several months after Moshe the Beadle and the other foreign Jews were deported, what happened to life in Sighet?

(see the answer key)

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