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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Several months after Moshe the Beadle and the other foreign Jews were deported, what happened to life in Sighet?
(a) The town became crime-ridden and economically depressed.
(b) Life returned to normal.
(c) Virtually everyone left Sighet.
(d) The community leaders planned a large celebration.

2. In Chapter 3, when Wiesel's father asked directions to the washroom, what happened to him?
(a) He was sent to the crematory.
(b) The officer yelled racial slurs at him.
(c) The officer knocked him to the ground.
(d) He was ignored.

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

4. Where did Moshe the Beadle work?
(a) A Hasidic synagogue.
(b) He taught religion at a high school.
(c) With Elie's father.
(d) He did not have a job.

5. In Chapter 1, what art had Moishe mastered?
(a) Making himself insignificant, invisible.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Making himself very noticeable.
(d) Sculpture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the prisoners were assigned to blocks in Chapter 4, where did they wait?

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

3. In Chapter 3, who was in charge of Wiesel, his father, and the other prisoners in the prison block?

4. What were the people wearing who jumped into the wagon at the end of Chapter 2?

5. How did the prisoners in Chapter 2, have to arrange themselves on the train?

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