Night Reading Quiz: Chapters 1-4

What does Moshe the Beadle try to do when he returns to Sighet?

• Warn the Jews about what will happen to them
• Encourage his community to believe in God
• Create a resistance movement
• Teach Kabbalah to the community

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How is Moishe the Beadle described at the beginning of the novel?

• Poor, jack-of-all-trades, awkward as a clown

• Outgoing, wealthy, arrogant

• Happy, silly, exciting

• Tired, hardworking, selfless

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What terrible news did Elie's father receive when summoned to a special meeting of the Jewish Council?

• All children were to be taken

• All young men were to be taken to fight in combat

• Jews were to be transported

• Elie's father was tried for treason

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Which of the following was NOT an edict that the people of Sighet had to abide by?

• Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death

• Every Jew had to wear a yellow star

• Jew could not be on the streets after six o’clock in the evening

• Jews could no longer sing or chant

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After Jews in Sighet were forced to follow decrees that limited their freedom, where were they forced to live?

• Concentration camps

• Ghettos

• Cattle cars

• Synagogues

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When Elie and his family moved into the second, smaller ghetto, it was apparent that...

• there was limited food and water available

• the previous residents left in a haste

• the previous residents were allowed to pack more that necessities

• the previous residents lived luxuriously

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How were Elie and his family transported to their unknown destination at the end of the chapter?

• Marching

• Cattle cars

• Wagons

• Trains

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What happens to the bags that the Jews of Sighet carried with them on the trains?

• The bags are left behind.
• They take the bags into the barracks.
• The Nazis dump the bags into the fires.
• The older prisoners steal everything inside the bags.

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Madame Schachter screamed about a fire that no one could see.

• True

• False

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When the Wiesel family exits the train, the SS officer says, "Men to the left! Women to the right!" This is the last time Elie Wiesel will ever see

• his father.
• his mother and his sister Tzipora.
• his sisters Hilda and Bea.
• his mother and all his sisters.

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