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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yanek states that "Amon Goeth wouldn't have" which meal "each day until he'd killed at least one Jew" (72)?
(a) Supper.
(b) Lunch.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Breakfast.

2. Yanek's first assigned task after he is moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp is to move a pile of what objects from one site to another?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Firewood.
(c) Bricks.
(d) Rocks.

3. As Yanek and the other prisoners enter the gates of Auschwitz, they see a sign announcing that "work is" (148) what?
(a) Healing.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Mandatory.
(d) Salvation.

4. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Disinfectant.
(c) Urine.
(d) Excrement.

5. Which member of Yanek's family feels most strongly that the family should remain in hiding within the pigeon coop?
(a) Yanek.
(b) Uncle Moshe.
(c) Uncle Abraham.
(d) Oskar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which past tense verb do the Nazis use when threatening to take action regarding the Jewish ghetto of Krakow?

2. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?

3. What is Yanek's first sign that Fred has contracted an illness?

4. How old had Yanek been when World War II had begun?

5. When Yanek is placed into a queue at the beginning of Chapter 17 and he hears screams up ahead, what happens when it is his turn?

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