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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the long train journey Yanek experiences in Chapter 15, he wakes up to discover that what event has taken place?
(a) The cattle car has begun to fill up with smoke.
(b) He can no longer feel his own feet.
(c) The man standing next to him has died.
(d) The cattle car has begun to fill up with water.

2. What is Yanek's first sign that his parents may have been captured by the Nazis?
(a) He finds a note they had left for him.
(b) He believes he sees them being led away.
(c) He returns to the pigeon coop to find them missing.
(d) Uncle Abraham says he had seen them being led away.

3. Of what type of material is the floor of Yanek's barrack at Birkenau made?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Wood.
(c) Mud.
(d) Metal.

4. What is NOT something Yanek associates with his formerly safe and happy self?
(a) Books.
(b) Science.
(c) Bicycle rides.
(d) American movies.

5. With what object is the man beaten to death after it is determined that his name is not really Finkelstein?
(a) A rock.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A brick.
(d) A shovel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Across the street from Yanek's family's apartment building lies what kind of temporary institution?

2. When the Nazis come to Krakow and empty its hospitals, what do they do with the patients?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 3, what action does Yanek take for the first time?

5. For how many hours does Yanek remain inside the motionless cattle car while the other cars are loaded with Jewish people?

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