WorksheetsNight Chapter 1-3
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
In Chapter 1, who tries to warn the Jews in Sighet about the German's murdering Jews?
A local school master
A Rabbi
Elie's Father
Moshe The Beadle
A Hungarian Cop
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 they encounter are polite.
Which of the following was NOT a detail from description of Moishe's stories from when he was deported to Galicia
He described babies being used as target practice
He describes people digging their own graves
He describes his wife's death
He describes faking his own death in order to escape
He describes a man begging to die before his children are killed in front of him.
What does Madame Schacter says she sees during the train ride?
Dead children
Gas Chambers
Visions of the future
Fire
Since Madame Schacter's cries ended up being true, her hallucinations are an example of:
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Foreshadowing
Plot
What do Elie and his family see when they arrive at the camp?
Nothing but darkness
Flames rising from a chimney
Their loved ones who were taken before
Piles of blankets and shoes
Jews in the gas chambers
"You'll be shot like dogs!" is WHAT type of figurative language?
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Hyperbole
Idiom
How is it that Elie and his father survive the FIRST selection when they get off the train?
They hide
They lie about their ages
They pretend that they are sick
They bribe a guard
There is mud to cover their shoes.
In chapter 3, what does Akiba Drumer say is the reason for why the men are experiencing such brutality?
God is testing them
Germans despise the Jews
They are Jewish
They are males
They must have done something to deserve this fate.
What choice does each man have at Auschwitz?
Women or children
food or water
Work or Die
Be shot or Burned
Comply or be assimilated
At the end of Chapter 3, to what new camp do Elie and his father go?
Auschwitz
Birkenau
Buna
Burma
Poland
Why do the young Jewish men with knives not attack the SS?
They do not know how to use weapons
They know the knives are not sharp enough
They decide to have faith in God instead.
They are waiting for the right time
They did attack them, but were taken down.
Which notorious SS officer did they meet at the concentration camp?
They met Hitler himself
They met Eichman
They met General Kolomaye
They met Dr. Mengele
The people were reciting the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, for themselves
True
False
Elie beat up the gypsy who struck his father?
True
False
Many of the people believed Moshe's story and prepared to leave Sighet?
True
False
Elie Wiesel said he began to hate them because they were his and his community's first oppressors. Who were they?
the Gestapo Officers
The Hungarian Police
The Members of the Jewish Council
Their non-Jewish Neighbors
A-7713 represents
Elie's father
Elie
Moshe the Beadle
What was the setting and the year for the first section of the book?
1935-1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
1950-1952 in Palestine and Jerusalem
1910-1915 in Berlin, Germany
1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvania
Yiddish is spoken by Jews and descendants of Jews of central and eastern European origin
True
False
What major world event is happening during this time period?
World War I
Civil Rights Movement
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
World War II
A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. This is called?
Capitalism
Fascism
Socialism
Zionism
_______________ is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Allusion
Hyperbole
Diction
Allegory
An intense and irrational dislike of people from other countries
Xenophobia
Racism
Anti-hostility
Antisemitism
What is one theme present within the piece?
Indifference
Religion
Survival
Struggle to Maintain Faith
All of the above
The job of the Sonder-Kommando is to put the bodies into the crematory
True
False
