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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose number is A-7713?
(a) Franek's.
(b) Yossi's.
(c) Wiesel's.
(d) Wiesel's father's.

2. Before the prisoners were assigned to blocks in Chapter 4, where did they wait?
(a) Seated on the ground.
(b) Tents.
(c) Standing by the fence.
(d) On bleachers.

3. What happened to the foreign Jews in Sighet when the Hungarian police arrived?
(a) They had to surrender all their possessions and walk to the nearest detention center.
(b) They were confined to run-down, unsanitary ghettos.
(c) They were put on cattle cars.
(d) They were systematically executed.

4. In Chapter 3, what lie did Wiesel tell a man who was looking for Wiesel of Sighat?
(a) That the man's family was sent to the crematorium.
(b) That the man's family was at another camp.
(c) That he knew the man's family was safe.
(d) That the man's family had not been heard from.

5. Why did Wiesel lie to the man who was looking for his family in Chapter 3?
(a) He was afraid the guards would for punish them for talking, so he tried to make the man leave quickly.
(b) He wanted to give the man hope.
(c) He was afraid of the man.
(d) Wiesel thought he was telling the truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what is Auschwitz?

2. In Chapter 4, what was Wiesel's job in the camp?

3. After the war when Wiesel met the woman who pretended to be Aryan rather than a Jew at the concentration camp, what did she tell him?

4. What was the condition of the main synagogue when Wiesel's group reached it?

5. What was Moishe the Beadle's economic status?

(see the answer key)

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