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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Wiesel's reaction to the thick soup offered to him the day after arriving at Auschwitz in Chapter 3?
(a) He ate it, and then he vomited.
(b) He threw it back at the server.
(c) He eagerly consumed it.
(d) He refused to eat it.

2. In Chapter 3, what was the first impression of Auschwitz by the prisoners on their arrival?
(a) The conditions were about the same as the place they came from.
(b) It looked as if the conditions would be more favorable than at the place they came from.
(c) The conditions were far worse than they could have imagined.
(d) They seemed dismal, but not disagreeable, conditions.

3. What did the name Auschwitz mean to the occupants of the cattle car in Chapter 2?
(a) A person's name.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Death.
(d) A vacation.

4. In Chapter 2, first, what did Madame Schachter cry and moan about?
(a) She cried about being separated from her family.
(b) She moaned about the fact that they were all going to die.
(c) She complained that she was ill.
(d) She complained about the conditions on the train.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Wiesel's father respond to his son's wish in the Spring of 1944?

2. What does the author say the cattle car is in Chapter 2?

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

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

5. In Chapter 3, when Wiesel's father asked directions to the washroom, what happened to him?

(see the answer key)

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