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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Yanek arrives at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Chapter 24, it is his seventh concentration camp in "less than" how many "years" (196)?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

2. Once Yanek finds out where his train is headed in Chapter 15, a man nearby gives Yanek advice about what topic?
(a) The gas chambers.
(b) Murder.
(c) Grief.
(d) Religion.

3. For what reason is Yanek's family unable to warm themselves while living in the rooftop pigeon coop?
(a) The heat from a fire would be too extreme within a small space.
(b) Smoke from a fire will overwhelm the small space.
(c) No one has a way to acquire matches.
(d) Smoke from a fire will give away their location.

4. Whose advice is Yanek ignoring when he forms a close friendship with Fred?
(a) Mina's.
(b) Uncle Abraham's.
(c) Uncle Moshe's.
(d) Oskar's.

5. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?
(a) The back of his neck.
(b) His left calf.
(c) His left arm.
(d) His right arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, the first prisoners to die along the way according to Yanek are the prisoners without what?

2. At the start of Chapter 18, Yanek vows to take which action every single morning from that point forward?

3. Which member of Yanek's family feels most strongly that the family should remain in hiding within the pigeon coop?

4. How many barrels for collecting human waste are allocated to 500 prisoners at Birkenau?

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

(see the answer key)

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