Quiz on 'Night' by Elie Wiesel - Chapter 1

What town does Eliezer live in?

• Sighet

• Krakow

• Warsaw

• Budapest

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What does Eliezer want to study that his father says he is too young for?

• Cabbala

• Science

• Mathematics

• The Torah

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Who is Moché the Beadle?

• A teacher in the synagogue

• A shopkeeper

• Eliezer's uncle

• A foreign Jew expelled by Hungarian police

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What does Moché the Beadle warn the townspeople of Sighet about?

• Atrocities committed by the Gestapo

• An upcoming famine

• A natural disaster

• The Nazi invasion

What year do the Jews of Sighet begin to doubt Hitler's intentions towards them?

• 1942

• 1943

• 1944

• 1945

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What are the Jews forced to wear to identify themselves?

• A blue ribbon

• A red scarf

• A white hat

• A yellow star

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What happens to Eliezer's family during the first deportation?

• They hide with a local servant

• They escape to Palestine

• They are forced to move to the smaller ghetto

• They are sent to a concentration camp

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What significant event happens to Eliezer towards the end of Chapter 1?

• He leaves Sighet by train

• He celebrates his Bar Mitzvah

• He meets Moché the Beadle for the first time

• He loses faith in God

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What is the reaction of the Jewish community to the foreign Jews being deported from Sighet?

• They protest against the Hungarian police

• They are indifferent and do nothing

• They offer shelter to the foreign Jews

• They are deeply disturbed and talk of revolt

What initial action does the Hungarian government take against the Jewish community in Sighet?

• They confiscate all valuable possessions

• They restrict their freedom of movement

• They force them into ghettos

• They immediately deport them