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- 1. Multiple Choice
What town do Eliezer and his family come from?
Gleiwitz
Sighet
Haifa
Budapest
- 2. Multiple Choice
What specifically does Eliezer recruit Moishe the Beadle to teach him?
The Cabbala
The Torah
The Talmud
The Haftorah
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is Eliezer’s oldest sister’s name?
Bea
Hilda
Tzipora
Esther
- 4. Multiple Choice
Upon his return to the village, what does Moishe the Beadle try to do?
Break into Eliezer’s home
Spy for the Nazis
Become a Rabbi
Warn the villagers about the Nazi threat
- 5. Multiple Choice
After being evacuated from their original homes, where are the Jews of Sighet first sent?
To Auschwitz/Birkenau
To a ghetto within Sighet
To Czechoslovakia
To Buna
- 6. Multiple Choice
On what day is Eliezer’s family deported from Sighet?
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement
he first day of Passover, the commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt
The Sabbath, the day of rest
- 7. Multiple Choice
On the train from Sighet, of what does Madame Schächter have visions?
A gas chamber
Israel
A furnace and fire
Angels of liberation
- 8. Multiple Choice
What do several men on the train do when they are unable to endure Madame Schächter’s screaming?
Stuff their ears with cotton
Beat her senseless
Jump off the train
Persuade her son to keep her quiet
- 9. Multiple Choice
From whom is Eliezer separated at Birkenau?
His mother and three sisters
His father
Both his parents
His entire family
- 10. Multiple Choice
During the first selection at Birkenau, what do Eliezer and his father, respectively, pretend their ages are?
Fifteen and fifty
Eighteen and forty
Fifteen and forty
Eighteen and fifty
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who is the infamous Nazi doctor presiding over the Auschwitz arrivals?
Dr. Mankle
Dr. Mengele
Dr. Menglein
Dr. Maunklietz
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is the Kaddish?
The Jewish prayer for the dead
A leader of the Jewish community
The Hebrew translation of “The Holocaust”
The book of Jewish mysticism
- 13. Multiple Choice
In Birkenau, who beats Eliezer’s father?
Meir Katz
A gypsy Kapo
An SS guard
A horde of prisoners
- 14. Multiple Choice
At Auschwitz, who recognizes Eliezer and his father?
Their relative from Antwerp, named Stein
A French Jewish woman posing as an Aryan
Their rabbi from Sighet
An old customer of Eliezer’s father
- 15. Multiple Choice
At Buna, with whom is Eliezer placed in a block?
Electricians
Masons
Farmers
Musicians
- 16. Multiple Choice
What is Idek?
Eliezer’s Kapo in the electrical equipment warehouse
A violinist who befriends Eliezer
Yosi’s brother
An old Jewish mystic
- 17. Multiple Choice
To whom does Eliezer lose the gold crown on his tooth?
Franek
Idek
Akiba Drumer
A Jewish dentist from Czechoslovakia
- 18. Multiple Choice
What do the Gestapo do after an instance of sabotage at Buna?
Arrest Eliezer
Torture Eliezer’s father
Hang a young child
Close down Buna
- 19. Multiple Choice
19. After Akiba Drumer’s death, what do Eliezer and the other prisoners do?
Decorate his grave
Rebel against the Nazis
Forget to say the prayer for the dead
Secretly light memorial candles in his honor
- 20. Multiple Choice
n January 1945, what sort of infection does Eliezer contract?
mouth
Thumb
Stomach
foot
- 21. Multiple Choice
In the concentration camp hospital, Eliezer’s neighbor remarks he has lost faith in everything except what?
God
Hitler
Death
Eliezer
- 22. Multiple Choice
During the long run after Buna, what does Eliezer say was the only thing that kept him from giving up?
His faith in God
His father’s presence
His desire for justice
A sense of pride
- 23. Multiple Choice
In the shed, taking a brief break from the run, what does Eliezer pray for?
For the dead
For an end to the war
For the strength to never abandon his father for his own benefit
For a quick end to their long journey
- 24. Multiple Choice
In the barracks at Gleiwitz, what does Eliezer hear?
His mother’s voice
The quiet prayers of all the Jewish prisoners
Rabbi Eliahou’s son mercilessly berating his father
Juliek playing Beethoven on the violin
- 25. Multiple Choice
Where does Eliezer’s father die?
Gleiwitz
Buchenwald
Birkenau
Buna
- 26. Multiple Choice
Name the former housekeeper who offered the Wiesel family safe refuge before they were deported.
Franek
Bertha
Maria
Martha
- 27. Multiple Choice
Elie's friend who was trampled to death during the evacuation.
Shlomo
Meir Katz
Zalman
Eliahou
- 28. Multiple Choice
The Rabbi who searched for his son
Idek
Meir Katz
Eliahou
Shlomo
- 29. Multiple Choice
When Elie dreamed of a better world, he dreamed of
always having bread and soup
always having water to drink
always having clean sheets and a warm bed
a world without bells
- 30. Multiple Choice
They were at Gleiwitz for ten days. Then they traveled by train for three days until they reached Buchenwald.
true
false
- 31. Multiple Choice
"No! He isn't dead yet!"
Idek
Hitler
Shlomo
Elie
- 32. Multiple Choice
"The yellow star? Oh, well, what of it?"
Elie
Shlomo
Meir Katz
Tibi & Yoshi
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