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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, what art had Moishe mastered?
(a) Making himself insignificant, invisible.
(b) Making himself very noticeable.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Sculpture.

5. In Chapter 2, at one of the train stops, what were the occupants allowed to have?
(a) Fresh clothing.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Water.
(d) Showers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, who was in charge of Wiesel, his father, and the other prisoners in the prison block?

2. What did the SS officer do the prisoners in Chapter 3 the day after arriving at Auschwitz?

3. At Birkenau, what did a fellow prisoner tell Wiesel and his father to do?

4. What is Birkenau in Chapter 2?

5. How did the Jews sleep the first night in the prison block at Auschwitz in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the people of Sighet lulled into a false sense of security by the German troops who entered Sighet in the spring of 1944?

2. How did Wiesel describe Dr. Mengele?

3. In Chapter 4, where did Wiesel say that he again met a woman he had worked with in the concentration camp?

4. How did a young woman pass as Aryan in Chapter 4?

5. What did Weisel want to do in the spring of 1944?

6. What did the German officer and the Hungarian interpreter tell the Jews on the train to the concentration camp in Chapter 2?

7. How did Moshe escape being killed when he was deported?

8. What were the conditions like on the train at the beginning of Chapter 2?

9. Who was Madame Schachter?

10. How were the prisoners escorted off the train cars at the end of Chapter 2?

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