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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 happens to the community synagogue in Yanek's neighborhood?
(a) It is burned down.
(b) It is shot up.
(c) It is defaced with graffiti.
(d) It is taken over by Nazis.

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

3. How old is Yanek when his parents are captured and taken away by the Nazis?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 12.

4. Oskar tells the rest of the family that the war that would come to be called World War II would last how long?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 6 months.

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

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

3. What is a "panzer," (7) according to Yanek?

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

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

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