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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the end of Chapter 18, Yanek has a dream that which person is chasing him?
(a) Amon Goethe.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Uncle Moshe.
(d) Dr. Mengele.

3. Yanek's prisoner uniform features stripes in which two colors?
(a) Gray and white.
(b) Black and white.
(c) Blue and gray.
(d) Blue and white.

4. When Yanek has the urge to strike the prisoner he has just helped, what does he do instead?
(a) He strikes his own legs.
(b) He pounds his fists on the ground.
(c) He remains quiet.
(d) He yells aloud.

5. In what year is Yanek moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Yanek find during his work detail in the abandoned ghetto of Krakow?

2. Yanek states that by the time the summer of what year arrives, he is the only member of his family who remains in the Krakow ghetto?

3. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?

4. In what season of the year are Yanek and the other prisoners at Auschwitz moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?

5. The "Sachsenhausen salute" involves torturing a prisoner by forcing him to remain in what type of position for hours at a time without moving?

(see the answer key)

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