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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "selection"?
(a) The process of selecting new prisoners to enter the camp.
(b) The process of separating the healthy from the weak.
(c) The process of choosing who is released from the camp.
(d) The process of selecting prisoners for new jobs.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 7, in the early dawn light how much of a difference was there between the living and the dead?
(a) Barely a difference.
(b) The dead were beginning to smell.
(c) No difference.
(d) The dead were gray, and the living were white.

3. How did Wiesel know Madame Schachter so well?
(a) She often visited his family's home.
(b) She was his teacher.
(c) She was sitting next to him during the long train trip.
(d) She was his aunt.

4. What was Madame Schachter's frame of mind as she screamed on the cattle car in Chapter 2?
(a) She was comforted by the fact that the men would protect her.
(b) She could not be consoled by anyone.
(c) The only comfort she found was in unconsciousness.
(d) She could only be consoled by Elie.

5. How many words were spoken as the prisoners leave the train in Chapter 3?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what did Wiesel find when he returned from work, when he still had possession of his father's knife and spoon?

2. In Chapter 1, what art had Moishe mastered?

3. In Chapter 2, what was the first thing the Jews swa as the train stopped before they got off?

4. In Chapter 2, what is Auschwitz?

5. In Chapter 3, what happened to the man who was looking for his family learned the truth?

(see the answer key)

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