Night Elie Wiesel Ch1 Reading Questions

Where does Elie live with his family?

• Budapest

• Bucharest

• Denmark

• Sighet

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How old is Eliezer Weisel when the story begins?

• 15

• 16

• 14

• 12

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What does Elie’s father think he is too young to study?

• Jewish history

• The Talmud and the Kabbalah

• Music

• Journalism

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What does Moshe the Beadle teach Elie?

• How to stay strong despite personal shortcomings

• How to mend shoes better than Elie’s father can

• The teachings of the Kabbalah

• The fact that evil sometimes overcomes good

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What happens to Moshe the Beadle and the foreign Jews in Sighet?

• They are hauled away in train cars

• They are taken to Poland

• They are forced to dig their own graves

• They are taken somewhere else and let go

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How does Moshe the Beadle escape the Gestapo?

• He plays dead

• He slips out of a transport truck

• A kind soldier sets him free

• He uses fake papers to return to Sighet

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What happened to the foreign Jews that were the first expelled from Sighet?

• They were sent to concentration camps

• They had to dig graves and then shot

• They were deported to the United States

• They were sent to a new ghetto.

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Who tries to warn the Jews of Sighet about the German murder of Jews?

• The local school master

• The Rabbi

• Elie’s father

• Moishe the Beadle

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Eventually, the Germans invade Hungary and they enter Sighet.  How do the German soldiers first treat the Jewish residents of Sighet?

• The Germans treat them well

• The Germans don’t treat them well

• Some of the Germans mistreat the Jewish residents

• They deport the Jews of Sighet immediately

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Why are the Jewish citizens of Sighet not concerned when the German soldiers first occupy their town?

• They feel the war will soon be over

• United Nations will protect them

• They have an escape plan

• The Germans are polite at first