Night Section 1-3

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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Which sentence does not describe Elie Wiesel's father?

• a. He was the most learned man in the town.

• B. He was cultured and unsentimental.

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

• D. He was a storekeeper.

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Why was Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel?

• A. Moshe taught Elie to read.

• B. Moshe was the only person who understood Elie's feelings.

• C. Moshe inspired Elie to make plans to leave Singhet and study at a university.

• D. Moshe became his cabbalist, or 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?

• A. The foreign Jews were made to dig coal to fill the large furnaces.

• B. The foreign Jews were shot and dumped into large mass graves.

• C. The foreign Jews were sent on a boat to Palestine.

• D. The foreign Jews who had money were able to buy their freedom.

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

• True

• False

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

• A. 1935-1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia

• B. 1950-1952 in Palestine and Jerusalem

• C. 1910-1915 in Berlin, Germany

• D. 1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvania

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Elie Wiesel said he began to hate them because they were his and his community's first oppressors. Who were they?

• A. the Gestapo officers

• B. the Hungarian police

• C. the members of the Jewish council

• D. their non-Jewish neighbors

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CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• True

• False

To what did Wiesel compare the world?

• A. He compared it to a blind and deaf person.

• B. He compared it to a large hole in the ground.

• C. He compared it to a cattle wagon hermetically sealed.

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

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CCSS.RL.8.3

What did Madame Schächter see in her vision?

• A. She saw large open graves full of children.

• B. She saw a fire--a furnace, with huge flames.

• C. She saw row after row of empty houses.

• D. She saw the face of Hitler laughing at the entire world.