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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp who are forced to pull rocks behind them in carts are also forced to take what action at the same time?
(a) Crawl.
(b) Cry.
(c) Recite poetry.
(d) Sing.

2. During the long train journey Yanek experiences in Chapter 15, he wakes up to discover that what event has taken place?
(a) The cattle car has begun to fill up with smoke.
(b) The cattle car has begun to fill up with water.
(c) The man standing next to him has died.
(d) He can no longer feel his own feet.

3. The director of the Judenrat informs the people of Krakow that he has been ordered by the Nazis to hand over how many thousands of Jewish people the following morning?
(a) 7.
(b) 50.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. Which prophet does Oskar name when pointing out the merits of Yanek's plan about the pigeon coop?
(a) Ezekiel.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Daniel.

5. What is Yanek's first sign that Fred has contracted an illness?
(a) He vomits.
(b) He is slower at chopping wood than he normally is.
(c) He cannot get out of bed.
(d) He wakes up bathed in sweat.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Yanek arrives at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Chapter 24, it is his seventh concentration camp in "less than" how many "years" (196)?

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

3. Which member of Yanek's family feels most strongly that the family should come out of hiding?

4. Yanek is shocked to discover that which person familiar to him is also heading toward Dachau?

5. What two terms do the prisoners at Buchenwald use to refer to Commandant Koch's wife?

(see the answer key)

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