Night Section 1 Quiz

Who taught Elie the Kabbalah?

• Moishe the Beadle

• Sighet

• Hilda Weisel

• Tzipora

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What is the "Zohar, the Kabbalistic works"?

• The secrets of Jewish mysticism

• The Jewish prayer for the dead

• The belief in one god

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How did the people in Elie's town react when the foreign Jews were deported?

• They fought the Hungarian police

• They threw bread to their fellow Jews and prayed for them

• They quickly forgot about the deported Jews

• They worried about what happened to their deported neighbors

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Which sentence does NOT describe Moshe the Beadle?

• He worked at the Hasidic synagogue
• He was able to make himself seem insignificant, almost invisible
• He was Aryan, not Jewish
• He was timid, with dreamy eyes , and did not speak much

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Why was Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel?

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

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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.

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What is Elie's father's response to his desire to study Kabbalah?

• "You are not smart enough."
• "You are too young."
• "I have studied it; it's not very informative."
• "You will not like it."

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How old was Elie when the book started?

• 12

• 16

• 15

• 45

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What was Elie's father's profession?

• He ran a store.
• He worked in a factory.
• He was a rabbi.
• He was a school teacher.

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Why did Moishe return to Sighet after he had been deported?

• He missed everyone.
• He wanted to warn everyone.
• He wanted to take Elie back to the Galician forest.
• He didn't know where else to go.

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