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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what reason is Yanek's family unable to warm themselves while living in the rooftop pigeon coop?
(a) Smoke from a fire will give away their location.
(b) Smoke from a fire will overwhelm the small space.
(c) The heat from a fire would be too extreme within a small space.
(d) No one has a way to acquire matches.

2. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?
(a) 1940-1941.
(b) 1944-1945.
(c) 1941-1945.
(d) 1942-1943.

3. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?
(a) Uncle Abraham.
(b) Uncle Moshe.
(c) Aunt Fela.
(d) Mina.

4. Who is Amon Goeth?
(a) The commandant of the labor camp.
(b) An executioner.
(c) A member of the SS.
(d) The Nazi Party Secretary.

5. What happens to the man who runs into the street in an attempt to save the synagogue from damage in Chapter 2?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is unable to scrub the graffiti from its walls.
(c) He is unable to keep the flood at bay.
(d) He is unable to put out the flames.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times per week do the Nazis conduct Resettlements in Yanek's city, as they are described in Chapter 6?

2. How much money does Yanek find during his work detail in the abandoned ghetto of Krakow?

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?

4. Who is Oskar?

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

(see the answer key)

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