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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first boon Yanek receives as a result of finding money in Krakow?
(a) Half a loaf of bread.
(b) An orange.
(c) An egg.
(d) A stick of butter.

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

3. How many siblings does Yanek have in the narrative?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 0.

4. Yanek states that by the time the summer of what year arrives, he is the only member of his family who remains in the Krakow ghetto?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1944.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Yanek's mother and Oskar's wife?

2. In what city does the narrative of Prisoner B-3087 open?

3. Which member of Yanek's family is he overjoyed to locate within the Plaszow labor camp?

4. Which group of Yanek's family members argues with Oskar about his estimate of the war's length?

5. Yanek tells the reader in Chapter 6 that he would trade "a week's worth of rations" (37) for one serving of which food prepared by his mother?

(see the answer key)

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