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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 name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the camp storehouse that holds items stolen from Jewish prisoners?
(a) California.
(b) Panama.
(c) Peru.
(d) Canada.

2. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?
(a) A Judenrat police officer.
(b) A kapo.
(c) An SS guard.
(d) A tailor.

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

4. What happens to the community synagogue in Yanek's neighborhood?
(a) It is taken over by Nazis.
(b) It is defaced with graffiti.
(c) It is shot up.
(d) It is burned down.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?

3. What does the German word "schnell" (64) mean when translated into English?

4. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?

5. At what age does a young Jewish man prepare to have a bar mitzvah?

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