Night by Elie Wiesel - Section I (Parts 06-14)

Eliezer and his family are among the first Jews in Sighet to go on the transport.

• True
• False

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The second ghetto was not guarded and people could have left.

• True
• False

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The Gestapo puts one person in charge of each train car. What does the Gestapo say will happen if anyone escapes that car?

• The person in charge will be fired.
• The person in charge will be beaten.
• The person in charge will be shot and killed.
• The person in charge will be released to go find the escapee.

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What news does Elie's father return with after his late-night meeting of the council?

• They are going to be sent to Auschwitz.

• They are going to be deported, destination unknown.

• They are going to Palestine.

• They are going to America, finally.

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Which of the following is NOT a detail of the scene in which the ghetto is evacuated?

• The day was hot.

• The people could have nothing to eat or drink.

• Many items were left abandoned in the street.

• They Hungarian police did not beat old people, women and children.

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Wiesel calls the second ghetto "an open tomb."  This metaphor is used to foreshadow what theme?

• silence
• death
• suffering
• None of the above

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Where were Elie and his family sent before being deported?

• The synogague
• A smaller ghetto
• To the basement of a neighbor's house
• None of the above

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What is one reason for Hitler's ability to gain so much power in Germany?

• Germany's leader was assassinated and Hitler was second in command.
• The German economy was thriving and Hitler promised to make this trend last.
• The economy was bad and people were desperate for a leader who would make the country great again.

After Elie's father received news that all of the Jewish people in the ghetto were to be transported, what reason did he reveal as to why the Jewish Council leader could not tell them where they were being transported?

• He did not know.

• He was spying on them for the Gestapo.

• The Gestapo threatened to shoot him if he told.

• This is untrue; the leader of the Council did tell them where they were being transported.

During the night that Elie's father met with the Jewish Council, before the Jewish people were to be transported, who was knocking at the sealed window outside?

• It was a friend of Elie's father, an inspector of the Hungarian police.

• It was the Gestapo trying to "get the jump" on the Jewish people.

• It was Elie's sister.

• It was Moishe the Beadle.