Night Chapters 1 and 2 Reading Quiz

What does Elie want to study?

• Kabbalah
• Christianity
• Law
• the Bible

Why was Moshe the Beadle expelled?

• His religious teachings.
• He was a foreigner.
• He was a fugitive.
• He was a thief.

Why is Moshe the Beadle able to escape?

• He begged for his life
• They wanted him to go back and warn the others
• He had a wounded leg and was taken for dead
• He snuck out unseen.

Throughout the first chapter, what is the general feeling of the Jews of Sighet?

• They seem worried about the war.
• They do not seem to think the war is a threat.
• They seem happy about the war.
• They sense that they are in danger.

Eliezer and his family are forced to live in a ghetto with other Jews from Sighet.

• True
• False

A family friend, a Hungarian police officer, tried to warn Eliezer and his family about impending danger.

• True
• False

What does Madame Schachter’s screams foreshadow?

• A forest fire that will distract the guards.
• The furnaces and crematories at Auschwitz.
• A fire that will destroy Auschwitz.
• A fireplace in the barracks.

When they arrive at their final destination, what do they smell?

• Soup
• Burnt popcorn
• Fire
• Burnt flesh

The train takes the prisoners to an even smaller ghetto.

• True
• False

When the Jewish prisoners arrive, they see the smoke stacks from the furnace.

• True
• False