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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which member of Yanek's family owns a bakery?
(a) Sala.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Mina.
(d) Uncle Abraham.

3. When Chapter 6 arrives, how old is Yanek?
(a) 10.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

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

5. Yanek states that anyone caught trying to escape from the ghetto received what punishment?
(a) They were shot on sight.
(b) They were taken to a death camp.
(c) They were taken to a work camp.
(d) They were hung.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sorts of objects does Oskar sell in his store before it is seized by Nazis?

2. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?

3. What is the legal first name of the novel's protagonist, though he goes by the name Yanek?

4. Uncle Moshe tells the rest of the family that Hitler had said that "The Jews" in Europe must" (2) take what action?

5. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?

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