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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Yanek when his parents are captured and taken away by the Nazis?
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

2. Across the street from Yanek's family's apartment building lies what kind of temporary institution?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A census office.
(c) A school.
(d) A post office.

3. Including Yanek, how many prisoners are moved to the location that turns out to be a salt mine?
(a) 50.
(b) 500.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

4. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A horse.
(c) A frog.
(d) A dog.

5. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?
(a) A kapo.
(b) A tailor.
(c) An SS guard.
(d) A Judenrat police officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?

2. When another train passes the train on which Yanek is riding in Chapter 15, Yanek discovers that his train is heading toward which concentration camp?

3. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?

4. What is NOT something Yanek associates with his formerly safe and happy self?

5. At the end of Chapter 18, Yanek has a dream that which person is chasing him?

(see the answer key)

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