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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the man who runs into the street in an attempt to save the synagogue from damage in Chapter 2?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is unable to put out the flames.
(c) He is unable to scrub the graffiti from its walls.
(d) He is unable to keep the flood at bay.

3. What is the name of Yanek's mother and Oskar's wife?
(a) Martha.
(b) Lena.
(c) Sala.
(d) Mina.

4. At what age does a young Jewish man prepare to have a bar mitzvah?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

5. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?
(a) 1940-1941.
(b) 1944-1945.
(c) 1941-1945.
(d) 1942-1943.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yanek's visit to which location saves him from his parents' fate of being taken by the Nazis?

2. Which past tense verb do the Nazis use when threatening to take action regarding the Jewish ghetto of Krakow?

3. When the prisoners at the Plaszow labor camp refer to Amon Goeth's "score," (71) to what are they referring?

4. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?

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?

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