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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 member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?
(a) Sala and Dawid's son.
(b) Sala.
(c) Dawid.
(d) Sala and Dawid's daughter.

2. What is NOT one of Yanek's favorite topics to read books about?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Exploration.
(c) Doctors.
(d) America.

3. What breed of dog is used by the Nazis in charge of the Plaszow labor camp?
(a) German Shepherd.
(b) Rottweiler.
(c) Doberman.
(d) Pit Bull.

4. Which past tense verb do the Nazis use when threatening to take action regarding the Jewish ghetto of Krakow?
(a) Razed.
(b) Liquidated.
(c) Incinerated.
(d) Destroyed.

5. To what location does Yanek flee whenever the Rosenblum girls begin to argue too loudly in Yanek's family's apartment?
(a) The rooftop.
(b) The pigeon coop.
(c) The hallway.
(d) The attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which members of Yanek's family weep continually as they listen to the sound of shots outside the pigeon coop?

2. When the Nazis come to Krakow and empty its hospitals, what do they do with the patients?

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

4. Yanek entertains the family in Chapter 1 with the use of which object he had created himself?

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

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