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WorksheetsNight by Elie Wiesel: Chapter 3
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
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Class
Date
1.
What happens to the bags that the Jews of Sighet carried with them on the trains?
a)
The bags are left behind.
b)
They take the bags into the barracks.
c)
The Nazis dump the bags into the fires.
d)
The older prisoners steal everything inside the bags.
2.
What does Eliezer lie about when questioned by the SS?
a)
his age
b)
his height
c)
his weight
d)
his religion
3.
Why does Eliezer lie and tell the SS that he is a farmer, instead of admitting he is a student?
a)
He wants to work in the fields and not in the school.
b)
He wants them to know he shouldn't be in the camp.
c)
He wants them to think he is strong and can do work.
d)
He wants to be a farmer anyway, so he's reinventing himself.
4.
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
a)
his father.
b)
his mother and his sister Tzipora.
c)
his sisters Hilda and Bea.
d)
his mother and all his sisters.
5.
Wiesel uses changes in sentence structure and length, repetition, and ellipses (...) to
a)
show how cruel the Nazis are.
b)
add suspense and slow down time for the reader.
c)
confuse the reader.
d)
recreate how the Nazis talked.
6.
In the "Never shall I forget" section of this chapter, Wiesel uses what technique to emphasize the fact that he has, for the first time, faced death?
a)
Personification
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Irony
d)
Parallelism
7.
When one of the veteran prisoners finds out that Eliezer and the other people from the train have never heard of Auschwitz, how does he react?
a)
He falls to his knees and cries.
b)
He wants to throw himself onto the electrified barbed wire.
c)
He laughs and laughs.
d)
He is angry.
8.
Who is Stein of Antwerp?
a)
A famous doctor that tortures Jewish prisoners in the camp.
b)
A relative of Eliezer and his father.
c)
The leader of Eliezer's barracks.
d)
A rabbi.
9.
What is the lie that Eliezer tells Stein?
a)
Eliezer says that Stein's family is alive and doing well.
b)
Eliezer says that Stein's family has died in the camp.
c)
Eliezer tells Stein that he doesn't know anything about the fate of his family.
d)
Eliezer tells Stein that he is 18 years old and not 15.
10.
What does ARBEIT MACHT FREL mean? (It's the sign over the gate of Auschwitz.)
a)
Work makes you free.
b)
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
c)
The mystical orchard of truth.
d)
Death to all Jews.
11.
Eliezer's faith in his god at this point in the book has...
a)
not changed.
b)
grown stronger.
c)
turned into anger and bitterness.
d)
disappeared. He no longer believes in God.
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