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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Germans arrested the Jewish leaders during Passover, what were the Jews required to do?
(a) Remain in their houses for three days.
(b) Immediately surrender all their possessions.
(c) Leave the town and find their own accommodations.
(d) Attend formation every morning at dawn.

2. What color was Tzipora's hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

3. What did Wiesel believe when he and his father were sent to the right after telling their ages to the officer at Birkenau?
(a) He believed that he and his father would be separated.
(b) He thought they were in the fortunate group.
(c) He believed they were being sent to the crematory.
(d) He thought they would be shot immediately.

4. How long did it take one of the hanged prisoners to die at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 40 minutes.
(c) More than a half a hour.
(d) About a half an hour.

5. Who is the first person to be introduced in the book, Night?
(a) Moshe the Beadle.
(b) A Hungarian policeman.
(c) Elie Wiesel.
(d) Elie's father.

6. After tiring of her screams, what did the men finally do to quiet Madame Schachter?
(a) The men promised to put out the fire.
(b) They hit her on the head.
(c) The men continued to ignore her outbursts.
(d) They sat on her.

7. How did Wiesel's father respond to the order that Jews were not allowed to keep valuables in the house?
(a) He destroyed their valuables rather that surrender them.
(b) He surrendered their valuables to the Germans.
(c) He buried their savings in the basement.
(d) He gave their savings to a relative who could safely hide them.

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

9. In Chapter 3, what did Wiesel see in the flames of the crematory?
(a) Children and babies.
(b) Moshe and Madame Schachter.
(c) His best friend from Sighet.
(d) His mother and sister.

10. In Chapter 3, why did Wiesel's father ask directions to the washroom?
(a) A friend of Elie's father was ill.
(b) He was ill with colic.
(c) Elie's father needed to wash a blood stain from his shirt.
(d) He needed to wash a wound.

11. In Chapter 3, who was in charge of Wiesel, his father, and the other prisoners in the prison block?
(a) An SS officer.
(b) Wiesel's father.
(c) A Polish prisoner.
(d) A German prisoner.

12. At Birkenau, what did a fellow prisoner tell Wiesel and his father to do?
(a) Smile.
(b) Keep their eyes averted downward at all times.
(c) Be sure to tell the truth about their ages.
(d) Lie about their ages.

13. What did the chimney represent for the prisoners in Chapter 3?
(a) Death.
(b) Food.
(c) Work.
(d) Warmth.

14. In Chapter 3, what was the first impression of Auschwitz by the prisoners on their arrival?
(a) They seemed dismal, but not disagreeable, conditions.
(b) The conditions were about the same as the place they came from.
(c) It looked as if the conditions would be more favorable than at the place they came from.
(d) The conditions were far worse than they could have imagined.

15. What color were the eyes of the man who joined the prisoners at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Brownish-black.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Gray-blue.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Wiesel meet Moishe?

2. In Chapter 2, first, what did Madame Schachter cry and moan about?

3. What was the initial reaction of the men in the train car to Madame Schachter's screams in Chapter 2?

4. In German language, what did the French girl who witnessed the event while Elie iwa working tell him to do in Chapter 4?

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

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