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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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. Which member of Yanek's family is he overjoyed to locate within the Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Sala.
(b) Uncle Abraham.
(c) Uncle Moshe.
(d) Mina.

4. What advice does Yanek's family member at Plaszow repeat to him over and over?
(a) Do not make eye contact with other Jews.
(b) Be as helpful and kind as possible.
(c) Start planning an escape.
(d) Do nothing to stand out.

5. Which members of Yanek's family weep continually as they listen to the sound of shots outside the pigeon coop?
(a) His aunts.
(b) His nieces.
(c) His cousins.
(d) His parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Oskar?

2. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?

3. One day when Yanek returns to the Plaszow labor camp, he is told that which member of his family is dead?

4. The narrative of the novel starts at the beginning of what month?

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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