Night Section 1 Quiz

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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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

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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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

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

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

• 1935-1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia

• 1950-1952 in Palestine and Jerusalem
• 1910-1915 in Berlin, Germany
• 1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvania

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

List in order, the events that happened from the last day of Passover until Pentecost.

• The Germans arrested the Jewish community leaders; The jeish residents were not allowed to leave their houses for three days; The Jews start wearing the yellow star; Two ghettos were set up.
• 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.
• The Germans arrested the Jewish community leaders; The Jews had to start wearing the yellow stars; Two ghettos were set up; The Jewish residents were not allowed to leave their houses for three days.
• The Jewish residents were not allowed to leave their houses for three days; The Germans arrested the Jewish community leaders; The Jews had to start wearing the yellow star; Two ghettos were set up.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

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Who taught Elie the Kabbalah?

• Moishe the Beadle

• Sighet

• Hilda Weisel

• Tzipora

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6