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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "panzer," (7) according to Yanek?
(a) A gun.
(b) A wall.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A tank.

2. What type of structure becomes a home for Yanek and his family beginning in Chapter 5?
(a) A utility room.
(b) A pigeon coop.
(c) A custodial closet.
(d) An underground bunker.

3. One evening, the Nazis announce that if all Jewish people do not go home by what time of night, they will be shot once they are found?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

4. What is the legal first name of the novel's protagonist, though he goes by the name Yanek?
(a) Hans.
(b) Jacques.
(c) Jakob.
(d) Jedediah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Oskar tells the rest of the family that the war that would come to be called World War II would last how long?

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

3. What object does Yanek's family use to cover the small window in the pigeon coop?

4. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?

5. Once Yanek realizes that his parents have been captured by the Nazis, his pain soon turns to "a stirring of" (61) which emotion?

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