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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one way that Wiesel addressed God at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Creator.
(b) Master of the Universe.
(c) Comforter.
(d) Eternal.

2. What is the importance of the knife and spoon given to Wiesel by his father in Chapter 5?
(a) It shows how little they had.
(b) It meant there would be a prayer meeting that night behind the kitchen.
(c) It was a secret code between Elie and his father.
(d) It meant Elie's father now worked in the kitchen.

3. In order to give themselves hope, what did Wiesel and his father pretend after spending several weeks in Auschwitz in Chapter 3?
(a) That Wiesel's mother and Tzipora were in a labor camp, not dead.
(b) That the experience was just a dream, and that they would awaken soon.
(c) That they were not frightened.
(d) That they were on a secret mission.

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

5. After the war, what did Elie learn about the Russians coming to the camp in Chapter 5?
(a) Anyone who remained in camp was taken prisoner by the Russians.
(b) The Russians liberated those in the hospital two days after the evacuation.
(c) The Russians never entered the camp.
(d) The camp authorities massacred everyone who remained in camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the prisoners in Chapter 2, have to arrange themselves on the train?

2. In Chapter 3, what was the first impression of Auschwitz by the prisoners on their arrival?

3. What was the condition of the main synagogue when Wiesel's group reached it?

4. What scene similar to that of the workman throwing the bread to the prisoners did Wiesel witness later in life?

5. When did Wiesel meet Moishe?

(see the answer key)

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