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Why is Elie thankful for the mud?

• the mud covers his new shoes he was given 
• the mud keeps his feet warm
• the mud disguises his foot injury

How does Elie react to his father being beaten? 

• He tries to avoid being noticed so he is not beaten.
• He punches the guy who did it in the face.
• He starts a riot in the camp.
• He cries because he has never seen his father in a position of weakness

During selections at the camp, what is Elie's main concern?

• to stay alive
• to not to be separated from his father
• to avoid the crematorium
• to keep his possessions

What sight shakes Elie's faith more than any other?

• the burning of babies and children in the crematorium
• the slaughterhouse 
• the sights of starving Jewish people
• the mass grave piled with bodies

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Why are Elie and his father told to lie about their ages?

• to avoid being selected for the crematorium
• to sound more intelligent
• to blend in
• to be able to stay together

What does the sign say above the iron door of the concentration camp?

• Work Makes You Free
• All Souls Go to Heaven
• Hope is A Choice
• Faith will set you free

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What do they receive every morning?

• cereal 
• black coffee
• full breakfast
• nothing 

To what did Wiesel compare the world?

• He compared it to a blind and deaf person.
• He compared it to a large hole in the ground. 
• He compared it to a cattle car. 
• He compared it to the Bible story of the Jews enslaved in Egypt. 

What did Madame Schächter see in her vision?

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

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What did the Jews in the train car discover when they looked out the window?

• They saw several large factories surrounded by barbed wire fences
• They saw lines of soldiers with truncheons, ready to beat them as they got out
• They saw flames gushing out of a tall chimney into the sky
• They saw wagons full of dead bodies