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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When the Nazis come to Krakow and empty its hospitals, what do they do with the patients?
(a) They send them to concentration camps.
(b) They move them to a different hospital.
(c) They shoot them in the street.
(d) They send them back to their families.

4. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the new addition to camp that is officially called "new camp B III" (136)?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Baja.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Hawaii.

5. When Yanek makes his way to the front of the line to see Dr. Mengle at Auschwitz, how old does he claim to be?
(a) 21.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 4, Oskar relents and takes Yanek out past curfew to what type of location?

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

5. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?

(see the answer key)

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