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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the younger Polish boy on the train platform who shouts at the passing train passengers that they will be transformed into a particular substance?
(a) 10 or 11.
(b) 5 or 6.
(c) 12 or 13.
(d) 3 or 4.

2. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the new addition to camp that is officially called "new camp B III" (136)?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Baja.
(d) Hawaii.

3. At the end of Chapter 14, a young boy is punished in what way when he is falsely accused of trying to escape?
(a) He is publicly hung.
(b) He is not fed for one week.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is beaten.

4. Yanek recalls being told by an SS guard upon his entry into Auschwitz that the only way to get out of the camp involved which object?
(a) A bullet.
(b) A miracle.
(c) A noose.
(d) A chimney.

5. What does the German word "schnell" (64) mean when translated into English?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Quickly.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Yanek when his parents are captured and taken away by the Nazis?

2. Yanek's prisoner uniform features stripes in which two colors?

3. Who is Amon Goeth?

4. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?

5. When the prisoners at the Plaszow labor camp refer to Amon Goeth's "score," (71) to what are they referring?

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