1: Moshe the Beadle warns the Sighet Jews that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives, but Elie and the other villagers
a. believe that he is trying to scare them
b. conclude that he has lost his mind
c. simply ignore him
d. do not trust the authenticity of his eyewitness account
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2: What does a German decree require Jews to wear to identify themselves?
a. A yellow cloth star, to symbolize the Star of David
b. Badly fitting prison clothes
c. The traditional Jewish yarmulke
d. Phylacteries
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3: What is the fate of the deportees if someone in their railway boxcar escapes?
a. Automatically, the entire group will be sent to the ovens.
b. The deportees will be buried in a mass grave.
c. They will all be shot.
d. Instead of riding, they will all have to walk to their destination.
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4: What is A-7713?
a. Elie’s home address in Sighet
b. An identification number from Auschwitz
c. The tattoo on Elie’s left arm
d. The letter and number of prisoners who would be selected by Dr. Mengele
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5: At Auschwitz, a smiling, compassionate young Polish prisoner-overseer alleviates their terror with the first humane words Elie has heard in a long time. What does he say?
a. “Shalom.”
b. “Good night.”
c. “Hello.”
d. “You are safe now.”
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6: What invokes Elie to ponder the following: “Was there a single place here where you were not in danger of death?”
a. A mocking placard warning the prisoners not to touch the electric fence
b. The dash past Dr. Mengele’s life-or-death assessing eyes
c. The excruciating seen of a thirteen year olds’ death by hanging
d. Seeing the truckload of babies being tossed into a fiery pit
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7: When Idek falls into a murderous fit one day in the warehouse and lashes Elie, who soothes him?
a. His father Chlomo
b. A French Jewess
c. Yossi and Tibi
d. Juliek
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8: According to Elie, who forsakes the prisoners?
a. God
b. They forsake each other.
c. Their fellow countrymen
d. The Kapo
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9: According to Elie, what was his pitiful inheritance?
a. Memories of his father in the concentration camp
b. His lost boyhood in Sighet
c. A knife and spoon
d. The few things he could evoke from his time with Moshe the Beadle
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10: In the dark shed among the struggling horde, what does Juliek produce the night before he dies?
a. His violin, which had been hidden until then
b. A fragment of a Beethoven concerto
c. Stories of life before the Nazi camps
d. The truth about their final destination
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11: “Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything.” What is Elie describing?
a. Heaven
b. Sleep
c. Childhood
d. Death
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12: On arrival at Buchenwald, out of the hundred prisoners in the train car
a. only Elie and his father survive
b. only half survive
c. only Elie, his father, and ten others survive
d. only ten survive
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13: In his last breath, Chlomo Wiesel said _____ , which is Hebrew for “God will help.”
a. “Yitgadal veyitkadach shmé raba”
b. “Eliezer”
c. “Haifa”
d. “Kaddish”
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14: Who said the following: “Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh, that fire!”
a. Moshe the Beadle
b. Berkovitz
c. Maria
d. Madame Schächter
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15: Who said the following: “Had I changed so much, then? So quickly?”
a. Moshe the Beadle
b. Chlomo Wiesel
c. Madame Schächter
d. Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel
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