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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the camp storehouse that holds items stolen from Jewish prisoners?
(a) Peru.
(b) Canada.
(c) Panama.
(d) California.

2. On the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, the first prisoners to die along the way according to Yanek are the prisoners without what?
(a) Water.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Food.
(d) Medicine.

3. What is Yanek's first sign that Fred has contracted an illness?
(a) He wakes up bathed in sweat.
(b) He vomits.
(c) He is slower at chopping wood than he normally is.
(d) He cannot get out of bed.

4. What is the name of Yanek's mother and Oskar's wife?
(a) Lena.
(b) Sala.
(c) Martha.
(d) Mina.

5. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?
(a) 1944-1945.
(b) 1942-1943.
(c) 1941-1945.
(d) 1940-1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Yanek lose while providing assistance to another prisoner on the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?

2. What method do the Nazis use to murder Fred once he becomes ill?

3. With what type of weapon does the kapo hit both Fred and Yanek in Chapter 20?

4. After standing in a minyan for a fellow prisoner's bar mitzvah, Yanek tells the young man that which fact is "all that matters" (134)?

5. What advice does Yanek's family member at Plaszow repeat to him over and over?

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