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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 right arm.
(c) His left calf.
(d) His left arm.

2. Oskar tells the rest of the family that the war that would come to be called World War II would last how long?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 10 years.

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) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

4. Which building in the now-abandoned ghetto of Krakow is Yanek assigned to clean after being taken there to work?
(a) A school.
(b) His family's former apartment building.
(c) A hospital.
(d) An art museum.

5. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Disinfectant.
(b) Urine.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Excrement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?

2. How old is the protagonist when the Germans invade his community?

3. What method do the Nazis use to transport Yanek and others when they are taken from the Krakow ghetto?

4. What happens to the man who runs into the street in an attempt to save the synagogue from damage in Chapter 2?

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

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