Night Quiz - Sections 1-4

Which sentence does not describe Moshe the Beadle?

• Worked at Hasidic Synagogue
• Able to make himself insignificant/invisible
• Aryan and not Jewish
• Timid with dreamy eyes, and did not speak much

Which sentence does NOT describe Elie Wiesel's father?

• Most learned man in town
• Cultured and unsentimental
• Had more concern for outsiders than own family.
• He was a store keeper

Why was Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel?

• He taught Elie to read.
• He was the only person who understood Elie's feelings.
• He inspired Elie to make plans to leave Singhet and study at college.
• He became his cabbalist, or instructor, in the mystical aspects of Jewish faith.

What did Moshe the Beadle tell the people on his return from being deported?

• The foreign Jews were made to dig coal to fill the large furnaces.
• The foreign Jews were shot and dumped into large mass graves.
• The foreign Jews were sent on a boat to Palestine.
• The foreign Jews who had money were able to buy their freedom.

Many of the people believed Moshe's story and prepared to leave Sighet.

• True
• False

What was the setting and the year for the first section of the book?

• 1935-1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 1950-1952 in Palestine and Jerusalem
• 1910-1915 in Berlin, Germany
• 1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvania

Elie Wiesel said he began to hate them because they were his and his community's first oppressors.  Who were they?

• the Gestapo officers
• the Hungarian police
• the members of the Jewish council
• their non-Jewish neighbors

Elie's mother and sisters went to Martha's village.

• True
• False

What did Madame Schachter see in her vision?

• large open graves full of children
• a fire-a furnace, with huge flames
• row after row of empty houses
• the face of Hitler laughing at the entire world

Some of the young men tied Madame Schacter up and gagged her.  Then they hit her.

• True
• False