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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daniel want to tell those just arriving at the Auschwitz camp?
(a) Warn them of their deaths.
(b) Run!
(c) Save yourselves!
(d) Fight!

2. What does Daniel's kapo do after they leave the Canada storehouses?
(a) Winks and kicks him.
(b) Beats him.
(c) Whips him.
(d) Punches him.

3. At the end of Chapter 15, where is Daniel and his father going?
(a) To Frankfurt.
(b) To Lodz.
(c) To America.
(d) To Berlin.

4. While Daniel's group is marched to the Canada complex, who is just arriving in Auschwitz?
(a) German Jews.
(b) Polish Jews.
(c) Hungarian Jews.
(d) French Jews.

5. Where is Daniel and his father marched to next as the Russians approach Auschwitz?
(a) Lodz.
(b) Buchenwald.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like when Daniel and his father are riding in an open boxcar?

2. Who does Daniel dream of while he is ill?

3. What does Father tell Daniel he will do for Peter at the end of the book?

4. When Daniel is ordered out of the freight car, who helps them out of the car?

5. When Daniel is running an errand to get chemicals, what act horrifies him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the photographs illustrate the declining conditions for the Jews?

2. Why does Daniel's father weep when he learns that Erika is alive?

3. What is the role of Karl in the story?

4. What is the significance of Peter's last words, "Find my family. Tell them. You go to Palestine for me. Remember..." ?

5. How does Passover provide hope for the Jewish people?

6. How does Adam's death prove that he lived only for revenge?

7. What is the importance of Peter being attacked by the Polish boys even though the war is over?

8. What does Rosa's statement that she will leave a note in Daniel's old apartment as to where she is an indication of?

9. What is the significance of the author showing the reader how the Germans live?

10. What does the train ride symbolize in chapter thirteen?

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