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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Zalman from?
(a) Poland.
(b) France.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

3. Why did the dentist not pull Elie's tooth in Chapter 4?
(a) Elie tried to run away.
(b) Elie said he did not feel well.
(c) Elie said he was late for work.
(d) Elie said the tooth did not hurt.

4. What did Wiesel's father ask Wiesel to do for him when they were in the concentration camp in Chapter 8?
(a) Let him die in the snow.
(b) Beg the guards to take him to the crematory.
(c) Try to steal medicine.
(d) Escape.

5. In Chapter 6, what happened to men who fell to the ground when they were being evacuated?
(a) They got up and ran again.
(b) They were shot.
(c) They were dragged along by other prisoners.
(d) Medics attended to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, why did the prisoners feel this way about the chimney at this point in the story?

2. 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?

3. What filled the prisoners' brains at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. How many prisoners were loaded into the cattle cars at the end of Chapter 1?

5. What did Elie find in the morning at the deserted village?

(see the answer key)

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