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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the conditions for the Jews on the train in Chapter 2?
(a) Each Jew had a sleeping bag and provisions.
(b) There was a seating and sleeping area.
(c) Crowded and hot.
(d) There were games and a victrola.

2. How did the people of Sighet view the needy?
(a) They hated them.
(b) They were compassionate toward them.
(c) They respected them.
(d) They did not particularly like them.

3. How did the German officers keep anyone from escaping from the train in Chapter 2?
(a) They threatened to shoot everyone if even one person escaped.
(b) There was one officer to guard each Jew.
(c) They threatened to withhold everyone's food and water.
(d) They threatened to send everyone to the furnace.

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

5. What profession did Wiesel claim in Chapter 3?
(a) Student.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Storekeeper.
(d) Blacksmith.

6. 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?
(a) She is actually Jewish, not French.
(b) She saw his mother and sister go to a crematory at another camp.
(c) She was severely punished for speaking to Elie when he was beaten.
(d) She is a distant relative.

7. 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 thought they would be shot immediately.
(b) He thought they were in the fortunate group.
(c) He believed that he and his father would be separated.
(d) He believed they were being sent to the crematory.

8. According to the German officer in Chapter 2, what happened to any Jews who kept their valuables?
(a) They were permitted to keep half their valuables.
(b) They were shot.
(c) They were separated from their relatives.
(d) They were immediately sent to the furnace.

9. In Chapter 3, how did Wiesel feel that he should have handled the results of his father asking about the washroom?
(a) He should have yelled racial slurs back at the attacker.
(b) He should have run and hid.
(c) He should have attacked the assailant.
(d) He should have repeated the question.

10. How many prisoners were loaded into the cattle cars at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) 93.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 80.

11. In Chapter 4, what did the foreman want Wiesel to do?
(a) Smuggle food from the kitchen.
(b) Steal electrical parts.
(c) Give him his gold tooth.
(d) Smuggle soap from the shower.

12. In Chapter 2, first, what did Madame Schachter cry and moan about?
(a) She complained that she was ill.
(b) She complained about the conditions on the train.
(c) She moaned about the fact that they were all going to die.
(d) She cried about being separated from her family.

13. How did the prisoners in Chapter 2, have to arrange themselves on the train?
(a) They all stood.
(b) They all sat crowded elbow-to-elbow.
(c) Most stood up, some sat.
(d) They crouched.

14. How did Wiesel's father respond to his son's wish in the Spring of 1944?
(a) He said he is too old to start over.
(b) He reminded Elie of the impossibility of moving to America.
(c) He said helping more Jews was too dangerous.
(d) He agreed to spend more time with Elie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What interests did Moshe and Wiesel share?

3. In Chapter 3, what did Wiesel see in the flames of the crematory?

4. In Chapter 3, who was the first person to fall to the ground?

5. What was Elie's reaction to the foreman's demand in Chapter 4?

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