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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, where was the first stop the train makes?
(a) Hronov.
(b) Prague.
(c) Brno.
(d) Kaschau.

3. In Chapter 3, what were the prisoners forced to do in the first prison block when they arrived at Auschwitz?
(a) Shower and then shiver and wait in the cold night.
(b) Run laps.
(c) Stand in formation for over an hour.
(d) Clean the entire prison block, top to bottom.

4. In the spring of 1944, what did Elie wish his father would do?
(a) Sell everything and go to Palestine.
(b) Move the family to America.
(c) Spend more time with him.
(d) Help more Jews acquire safe passage.

5. What was the condition of the main synagogue when Wiesel's group reached it?
(a) The Gestapo kept it clean to make outsiders think they were humane.
(b) It was vandalized.
(c) It was burned to the ground.
(d) The Gestapo kept it clean to lull the Jews into a false sense of security.

6. Where is Sighet?
(a) Spotsylvania.
(b) Israel.
(c) Transylvania.
(d) Zohar.

7. What were the people wearing who jumped into the wagon at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Gray uniforms.
(b) Striped jackets and black pants.
(c) Blue uniforms.
(d) White jackets and pants.

8. In Chapter 3, what did the prisoners discuss after several weeks in the camp?
(a) They discussed their jobs in the camp.
(b) They formulate an escape plan.
(c) They tried to figure out who among them would be sent to the crematorium.
(d) A reason for their suffering.

9. In the spring of 1944, what did the people of Sighet believe about Hitler?
(a) That he would soon be defeated.
(b) They thought his troops were turning on him.
(c) That he was killed or went into hiding.
(d) That he would conquer all of Europe.

10. In Chapter 4, what was the dentist's punishment after his arrest?
(a) Electrocution.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) The crematory.
(d) Hanging.

11. 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.

12. 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 they were being sent to the crematory.
(d) He believed that he and his father would be separated.

13. Madame Schachter traveled with whom in Chapter 2?
(a) Her ten-year-old son.
(b) No one.
(c) Her ten-year-old daughter.
(d) Her husband and two oldest sons.

14. In Chapter 2, what was the first thing the Jews swa as the train stopped before they got off?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) occupants of the camp lined up in formation.
(c) Men and women digging in a rock quarry.
(d) Fire.

15. Where did the flames appear to be coming from that the Jews saw as they exit the train at Birkenau in Chapter 2?
(a) An overturned cattle car.
(b) A bonfire.
(c) A house.
(d) A chimney.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Madame Schachter's frame of mind as she screamed on the cattle car in Chapter 2?

2. How did the people of Sighet regard Wiesel's father?

3. How did Wiesel's father respond to the order that Jews were not allowed to keep valuables in the house?

4. In Chapter 2, a German officer who threatened to shoot the occupants of the cattle car compared them to what animal?

5. What did the chimney represent for the prisoners in Chapter 3?

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