Chapter/Section Study Guide: Chapter One

Directions: Reread or skim through the chapter again and then answer the questions below. Try to include part of the question in your answer. Make sure you provide facts from the book in most cases, you should write facts exactly as they appear from the book and you need to provide a page number as well.

Section 1/Chapter 1, pages 1-22 1. Describe Moshe the Beadle. 2. Describe Elie Wiesels father. What was his occupation? 3. Why was Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel? 4. Summarize the story Moshe the Beadle told on his return from being deported. Why did he say he had returned to Sighet? 5. What was the public reaction to Moshes story? 6. What was the setting and the year for the first section of the book? What was the world condition at the time? 7. Describe, in order, the events that happened from the last day of Passover until Pentecost. 8. How did Wiesel say he felt about the Hungarian police? 9. Who was Martha? What happened when she visited the Wiesel family in the ghetto?

10. Pretend for a moment that you are Elie Wiesel. Try to imagine how you would feel about: being forcibly removed from your home getting packed into a train car and sent to an unknown destination for an unknown reason listening to the frantic and maniacal rantings of a crazy woman you used to know as being normal finally seeing fires which you now know to be Nazis burning humans

Write a journal entry of your own, reflecting this experience.