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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What troubling news did the people of Sighet learn in the spring of 1944?
(a) Hitler's army had strengthened.
(b) The deported occupants were executed.
(c) Their town would be turned into a concentration camp.
(d) German troops were getting closer to Sighet.

2. What did the chimney represent for the prisoners in Chapter 3?
(a) Warmth.
(b) Food.
(c) Work.
(d) Death.

3. Where is Sighet?
(a) Transylvania.
(b) Israel.
(c) Spotsylvania.
(d) Zohar.

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

5. In the spring of 1944, what did the people of Sighet believe about Hitler?
(a) They thought his troops were turning on him.
(b) That he would soon be defeated.
(c) That he would conquer all of Europe.
(d) That he was killed or went into hiding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first person to be introduced in the book, Night?

2. In Chapter 2, how does Wiesel describe his train trip leaving Sighet?

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

4. Madame Schachter traveled with whom in Chapter 2?

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

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