Night Chapters 2-3

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 Schachter 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.

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.

Which notorious SS officer did they meet at the concentration camp?

• They met Hitler himself.

• They met Eichman.

• They met General Kolomaye.

• They met Dr. Mengele.

What was Elie's main thought as the men and women were being herded from the train?

• It was to stay with his father at all costs.

• It was to keep his faith in God.

• It was to stay alive and healthy.

• It was to be as brave as possible.

True or False: The people were reciting the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, for themselves.

• True

• False

Which statement is true?

• They went to Birkenau, then to Bergen-Belsen, then to Auschwitz.

• They stayed at Nuremberg for one month.

• They stayed at Galicia for six days, then went to Birkenau.

• They were at Auschwitz for about three weeks. Then they went to Buna.

What did Elie Wiesel do when Idek hit his father?

• Elie did not do anything to help his father.

• He hit Idek over the head with a chair.

• He prayed out loud for forgiveness for Idek.

• He hit hs father himself for not avoiding Idek's punishment.

Upon their arrival to Auschwitz, one of the inmates gives Elie and his father some advice. What is this advice?

• The inmate tells them to kill the SS officers.

• The inmate tells them to lie about their ages.

• The inmate asks where they are from.

• The inmate was their neighbor back in Sighet.

What does Elie witness in chapter three that he claims wouldn't have gone unpunished earlier in his life?

• He sees his mom taken to the crematorium.

• He witnessed one of his sisters being killed.

• He watched infants being disposed of in the fire pits.

• He witnessed his father being struck to the ground.