Night by Elie Wiesel: Chapter 1-3 Questions

What happens to the bags that the Jews of Sighet carried with them on the trains?

• The bags are left behind.
• They take the bags into the barracks.
• The Nazis dump the bags into the fires.
• The older prisoners steal everything inside the bags.

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What does Eliezer lie about when questioned by the SS?

• his age
• his height
• his weight
• his religion

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Why does Eliezer lie and tell the SS that he is a farmer, instead of admitting he is a student?

• He wants to work in the fields and not in the school.
• He wants them to know he shouldn't be in the camp.
• He wants them to think he is strong and can do work.
• He wants to be a farmer anyway, so he's reinventing himself.

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When the Wiesel family exits the train, the SS officer says, "Men to the left! Women to the right!" This is the last time Elie Wiesel will ever see

• his father.
• his mother and his sister Tzipora.
• his sisters Hilda and Bea.
• his mother and all his sisters.

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When one of the veteran prisoners finds out that Eliezer and the other people from the train have never heard of Auschwitz, how does he react?

• He falls to his knees and cries.
• He wants to throw himself onto the electrified barbed wire.
• He laughs and laughs.
• He is angry.

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Who is Stein of Antwerp?

• A famous doctor that tortures Jewish prisoners in the camp.
• A relative of Eliezer and his father.
• The leader of Eliezer's barracks.
• A rabbi.

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What is the lie that Eliezer tells Stein?

• Eliezer says that Stein's family is alive and doing well.
• Eliezer says that Stein's family has died in the camp.
• Eliezer tells Stein that he doesn't know anything about the fate of his family.
• Eliezer tells Stein that he is 18 years old and not 15.

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What does ARBEIT MACHT FREL mean? (It's the sign over the gate of Auschwitz.)

• Work makes you free.
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
• The mystical orchard of truth.
• Death to all Jews.

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Eliezer's faith in his God at this point in the book has...

• not changed.

• grown stronger.

• turned into anger and bitterness.

• disappeared. He no longer believes in God.

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Define anti-Semitic.

• Discrimination against Jews

• Discrimination against Moshe the Beadle

• Refusal to obey the Gestapo

• Refusal to obey the Nazis.

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