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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich sentence does not describe Moshe the Beadle?Worked at Hasidic SynagogueAble to make himself insignificant/invisibleAryan and not JewishTimid with dreamy eyes, and did not speak much
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich sentence does NOT describe Elie Wiesel's father?Most learned man in townCultured and unsentimentalHad more concern for outsiders than own family.He was a store keeper
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhy was Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel?He taught Elie to read.He was the only person who understood Elie's feelings.He inspired Elie to make plans to leave Singhet and study at college.He became his cabbalist, or instructor, in the mystical aspects of Jewish faith.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Moshe the Beadle tell the people on his return from being deported?The foreign Jews were made to dig coal to fill the large furnaces.The foreign Jews were shot and dumped into large mass graves.The foreign Jews were sent on a boat to Palestine.The foreign Jews who had money were able to buy their freedom.
- 5. Multiple ChoiceMany of the people believed Moshe's story and prepared to leave Sighet.TrueFalse
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the setting and the year for the first section of the book?1935-1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia1950-1952 in Palestine and Jerusalem1910-1915 in Berlin, Germany1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvania
- 7. Multiple ChoiceElie Wiesel said he began to hate them because they were his and his community's first oppressors. Who were they?the Gestapo officersthe Hungarian policethe members of the Jewish counciltheir non-Jewish neighbors
- 8. Multiple ChoiceElie's mother and sisters went to Martha's village.TrueFalse
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Madame Schachter see in her vision?large open graves full of childrena fire-a furnace, with huge flamesrow after row of empty housesthe face of Hitler laughing at the entire world
- 10. Multiple ChoiceSome of the young men tied Madame Schacter up and gagged her. Then they hit her.TrueFalse
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the Jews in the train car discover when they looked out the window?several large factories surrounded by barbed wire fenceslines of soldiers with truncheons ready to beat them as they got offflames gushing out of a tall chimney into the skywagons full of dead bodies
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Wiesel say about the travelers' illusions?They left their illusions in the ghetto in SighetThey were still clinging to their illusions even though they gave up their possessions.They left their cherished objects and illusions behind on the train.Seeing the German soldiers made them give up their illusions.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceTo what did Wiesel compare the world?to a blind and deaf personto a large hole in the groundto a cattle wagon hermetically sealedto the Bible story of the Jews in slavery in Egypt
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich notorious SS officer did they meet at the concentration camp?HitlerEichmanGeneral KolomayeDr. Mengele
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat was Elie's main thought as the men and women were being headed from the train?stay with his father at all costskeep his faith in Godstay alive and healthybe as brave as possible
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe people were reciting the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, for themselves.TrueFalse
- 17. Multiple ChoiceElie beat up the gypsy who struck his father.TrueFalse
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement is true?They went to Birkenau, then to Bergen-Belsen, then to AuschwitzThey stayed at Nuremberg for one monthThey stayed at Galicia for 6 days, then went to BirkenauThey were at Auschwitz for about 3 weeks. Then they went to Buna.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThey dentist gave Elie a gold crown for one of his rotten teeth.TrueFalse
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Elie Wiesel do when Idek hit his father?Elie did not do anything to help his father.He hit Idek over the head with a chairHe prayed out loud for forgiveness for IdekHe hit his father himself for not avoiding Idek's punishment
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Franek want from Elie?Elie's new shoesmoney Elie was hiding in the hem of his pantsElie's gold toothElie's blanket
- 22. Multiple ChoiceElie gave up the item to keep Franek from tormenting his father.TrueFalse
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhat were the only things in which Elie took an interest?sleep and prayerhis and his father's healthcounting the days until he could get outsoup and his crust of stale bread
- 24. Multiple ChoiceElie said the men were more depressed than ever after the air raid.TrueFalse
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