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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a workman threw a piece of bread to the prisoners, how did the prisoners react in Chapter 7?
(a) They threw it back at the workman.
(b) They fought over it.
(c) They drew straws to see who got the bread.
(d) They were too weak and indifferent to care.

2. In Chapter 9, what did Elie want to do that he had not done since living in the ghetto?
(a) Care about something.
(b) Read.
(c) Look in a mirror.
(d) Pray.

3. What did Moshe the Beadle focus on after his deportation?
(a) He immersed himself in prayer.
(b) He devoted himself to helping other foreign Jews escape.
(c) He planned an uprising against the Hungarian police.
(d) He was engrossed in getting others to listen to his stories.

4. What caused the prisoners' actions after they received their freedom in Chapter 9?
(a) They wanted the physical reminders of their experiences destroyed.
(b) They had been tortured and humiliated beyond all human limits.
(c) They were angry and resentful, so they demanded revenge.
(d) Survival is more important than getting revenge.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Wiesel's reaction to the event he witnessed later in life that reminded him of the workman throwing bread to the prisoners?

3. In Chapter 5, what did the prisoners receive the night before Rosh Hashanah, the last day of the Jewish year?

4. How did the living feel when the corpses were thrown off the train in Chapter 7?

5. How did Moshe's experience change him?

(see the answer key)

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