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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?
(a) Sala and Dawid's son.
(b) Sala and Dawid's daughter.
(c) Sala.
(d) Dawid.

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

3. One evening, the Nazis announce that if all Jewish people do not go home by what time of night, they will be shot once they are found?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

4. After standing in a minyan for a fellow prisoner's bar mitzvah, Yanek tells the young man that which fact is "all that matters" (134)?
(a) They love God.
(b) The Allies are on their way.
(c) The Nazis are evil incarnate.
(d) They are alive.

5. Once Yanek realizes that his parents have been captured by the Nazis, his pain soon turns to "a stirring of" (61) which emotion?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Self-preservation.
(c) Determination.
(d) Rage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of Yanek's family owns a bakery?

2. What sorts of objects does Oskar sell in his store before it is seized by Nazis?

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

4. Yanek states that anyone caught trying to escape from the ghetto received what punishment?

5. Yanek's visit to which location saves him from his parents' fate of being taken by the Nazis?

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