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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Moshe tell Weisel he escaped the Gestapo in 1944?
(a) He agreed to kill the Jews who were on his truck.
(b) He was shot in the leg and left for dead.
(c) He stole a truck.
(d) He disguised himself as a Gestapo agent.

2. In the spring of 1944, what did Elie wish his father would do?
(a) Help more Jews acquire safe passage.
(b) Spend more time with him.
(c) Sell everything and go to Palestine.
(d) Move the family to America.

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

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

5. As the train trip continued, what did Madame Schachter scream about in Chapter 2?
(a) She continued to complain that she was ill.
(b) She worried that the train would derail.
(c) She screamed about fire, flames, and a furnace.
(d) She screamed for more food and water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Wiesel believe when he and his father were sent to the right after telling their ages to the officer at Birkenau?

3. Where did Moshe the Beadle work?

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

5. When did Wiesel meet Moishe?

(see the answer key)

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