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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Though Yanek knows that he is still a young man when he arrives at Auschwitz, he declares that he appears to be a man of what age?
(a) 80.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 50.

3. 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?
(a) 18.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

4. How many Jewish men are required to form a minyan?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food item do the Nazis provide to each prisoner that they say must last for the entirety of the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?

2. What method of transportation do Yanek and the other prisoners use to reach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?

3. Which nationality is not named in Yanek's portrait of the prisoners who begin singing Jewish songs in many different languages?

4. Which building in the now-abandoned ghetto of Krakow is Yanek assigned to clean after being taken there to work?

5. The Nazis guarding Yanek and the others with him as they are removed from the Krakow ghetto are armed with which kind of weapons?

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