Chapter one reading check Night

1. Which sentence does not describe Moishe the Beadle?

• A. He worked at the Hasidic synagogue.

• B. He was able to make himself seem insignificant, almost invisible.

• C. He was Aryan, not Jewish.

• D. He was timid, with dreamy eyes, and did not speak much.

Which sentence does not describe Elie Wiesel's father?

• A. He was the most learned man in the town.

• B. He was cultured and unsentimental.

• C. He had more concern for outsiders than for his own family.

• D. He was a storekeeper.

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 Singlet and study at a university.

• Moishe became his Kabbalist, or instructor in the mystical aspects of the Jewish faith.

What did Moishe 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.

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

• 1935-1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia

• 1950-1952 in Budapest, Hungary

• 1910-1915 in Berlin, Germany

• 1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvania

This is the correct order of events: from the last day of Passover until Pentecost.

--Two ghettos were set up.

--The Jews had to start wearing the yellow star.

--The Germans arrested the Jewish community leaders.

--The Jewish residents were not allowed to leave their houses for three days.

• true

• false

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

True or False: Elie's mother and sisters went to Martha's village.

• True

• False

True or False: The first time Elie saw his dad cry was when they were finally ordered to march out of the small ghetto.

• true

• false

Which of the following did not occur while in the small ghetto?

• the ghetto was not guarded and people could come and go as they wanted.

• Elie's father bribed the Gestapo to allow him to bring an extra bag with him when they got transported.

• A former maid tried to get Elie and his family to flee with her.

• Fellow Jews referred to deportation as a "vacation"