Night Chapters 1-4 Checkpoint

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.

Which sentence does not describe Elie Wiesel's father?

• He was the most learned man in the town.

• He was cultured and unsentimental.

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

• He was a storekeeper.

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 cabbalist, or instructor in the mystical aspects of the Jewish faith.

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.

True or False: Many of the people believed Moshe's story and prepared to leave Sighet.

• True

• False

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 wagon hermetically sealed.

• He compared it to the Bible story of the Jews in slavery 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.

True or False: Some of the young men tied Madame Schächter up and gagged her. Then they hit her.

• True

• False

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.

What did Wiesel say about the travelers' illusions?

• They left their illusions in the ghetto in Sighet.

• They were still clinging to their illusions even though they gave up their possessions.

• They left their cherished objects and illusions behind on the train.

• Seeing the German soldiers made them give up their illusions.