Night Ch. 1& 2 Quiz

Why was Moishe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel? 

• Moishe taught Elie to read. 
• Moishe was the only person who understood Elie's feelings. 
• Moishe inspired Elie to make plans to leave Sighet and study at a university. 
• Moishe became his cabalist, or instructor in the mystical aspects of the Jewish faith. 

What did Madame Schachter 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 faces of Hitler laughing at the entire world. 

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 off. 
• They saw flames gushing out of a tall chimney into the sky. 
• They saw wagons full of dead bodies. 

Why didn't Elie's father want to leave Sighet when Elie asked him? 

• He was too poor to travel. 
• He was too sick to travel. 
• He thought he was too old to start a new life in Palestine. 
• He was deported before he could escape the Gestapo. 

How many people were in each cattle train? 

• 10 
• 15
• 40
• 80 

What did the German officers say would happen to the people on the train if anyone went missing? 

• They would be hung. 
• They would be pushed off the moving train. 
• They would be shot. 
• They would be starved. 

What does Madame Schachter have visions of? 

• The gas chambers
• Death
• Her possessions being lost
• The furnance 

What do the men on the train do initially when Madame Schachter began to scream? 

• They tried to comfort her. 
• They ignored her. 
• They screamed at her. 
• They look for help 

After Madame Schacter wouldn't calm down what did the men proceed to do? 

• They ignored her
• They beat her
• They told the German soldiers to shoot her
• They continued to try to calm her down 

What were the Jews told when the train arrived at Auschwitz? 

• That they would probably die there
• That they were not going to be separated
• That they were lucky
• None of the above