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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 is able to obtain what item of clothing at Birkenau that he considers crucial for his survival?
(a) A scarf.
(b) A coat.
(c) A hat.
(d) A pair of shoes.

2. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Sachsenhausen camp?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1945.

3. In Chapter 17, after Yanek verbally surrenders to death inside the gas chamber, what substance comes out of the showerhead instead of gas?
(a) Rust.
(b) Water.
(c) Milk.
(d) Steam.

4. Which literary technique does Gratz use when he chooses the member of Yanek's family who will appear again at Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Irony.
(d) Metaphor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp?

2. When new prisoners are brought to Auschwitz in Chapter 19, a long-time prisoner whispers to them that any children among them should claim to be what age?

3. Yanek states that "Amon Goeth wouldn't have" which meal "each day until he'd killed at least one Jew" (72)?

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

5. At the start of Chapter 19, Yanek states that when he gets to Auschwitz, he is how old?

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