WorksheetsNight Quiz - Sections 1-4
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which sentence does not describe Moshe the Beadle?
a)
Worked at Hasidic Synagogue
b)
Able to make himself insignificant/invisible
c)
Aryan and not Jewish
d)
Timid with dreamy eyes, and did not speak much
2.
Which sentence does NOT describe Elie Wiesel's father?
a)
Most learned man in town
b)
Cultured and unsentimental
c)
Had more concern for outsiders than own family.
d)
He was a store keeper
3.
Why was Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel?
a)
He taught Elie to read.
b)
He was the only person who understood Elie's feelings.
c)
He inspired Elie to make plans to leave Singhet and study at college.
d)
He became his cabbalist, or instructor, in the mystical aspects of Jewish faith.
4.
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.
5.
Many of the people believed Moshe's story and prepared to leave Sighet.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
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
7.
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
8.
Elie's mother and sisters went to Martha's village.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
What did Madame Schachter see in her vision?
a)
large open graves full of children
b)
a fire-a furnace, with huge flames
c)
row after row of empty houses
d)
the face of Hitler laughing at the entire world
10.
Some of the young men tied Madame Schacter up and gagged her. Then they hit her.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
What did the Jews in the train car discover when they looked out the window?
a)
several large factories surrounded by barbed wire fences
b)
lines of soldiers with truncheons ready to beat them as they got off
c)
flames gushing out of a tall chimney into the sky
d)
wagons full of dead bodies
12.
What did Wiesel say about the travelers' illusions?
a)
They left their illusions in the ghetto in Sighet
b)
They were still clinging to their illusions even though they gave up their possessions.
c)
They left their cherished objects and illusions behind on the train.
d)
Seeing the German soldiers made them give up their illusions.
13.
To what did Wiesel compare the world?
a)
to a blind and deaf person
b)
to a large hole in the ground
c)
to a cattle wagon hermetically sealed
d)
to the Bible story of the Jews in slavery in Egypt
14.
Which notorious SS officer did they meet at the concentration camp?
a)
Hitler
b)
Eichman
c)
General Kolomaye
d)
Dr. Mengele
15.
What was Elie's main thought as the men and women were being headed from the train?
a)
stay with his father at all costs
b)
keep his faith in God
c)
stay alive and healthy
d)
be as brave as possible
16.
The people were reciting the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, for themselves.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
Elie beat up the gypsy who struck his father.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
Which statement is true?
a)
They went to Birkenau, then to Bergen-Belsen, then to Auschwitz
b)
They stayed at Nuremberg for one month
c)
They stayed at Galicia for 6 days, then went to Birkenau
d)
They were at Auschwitz for about 3 weeks. Then they went to Buna.
19.
They dentist gave Elie a gold crown for one of his rotten teeth.
a)
True
b)
False
20.
What did Elie Wiesel do when Idek hit his father?
a)
Elie did not do anything to help his father.
b)
He hit Idek over the head with a chair
c)
He prayed out loud for forgiveness for Idek
d)
He hit his father himself for not avoiding Idek's punishment
21.
What did Franek want from Elie?
a)
Elie's new shoes
b)
money Elie was hiding in the hem of his pants
c)
Elie's gold tooth
d)
Elie's blanket
22.
Elie gave up the item to keep Franek from tormenting his father.
a)
True
b)
False
23.
What were the only things in which Elie took an interest?
a)
sleep and prayer
b)
his and his father's health
c)
counting the days until he could get out
d)
soup and his crust of stale bread
24.
Elie said the men were more depressed than ever after the air raid.
a)
True
b)
False
25.
What happened to the young man from Warsaw?
a)
tortured and hanged for hitting an SS Officer
b)
electrocuted when he tried to climb over the fence
c)
hanged for stealing during the air-raid
d)
shot while trying to escape
26.
How did Elie say the soup tasted the night the pipel (young servant boy) was hanged?
a)
delicious
b)
did not even taste it
c)
tasted of corpses
d)
tasted like bl
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