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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of Chapter 17, Yanek states that he has been imprisoned in concentration camps for what length of time?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 3 years.

2. What is the name of Yanek's mother and Oskar's wife?
(a) Lena.
(b) Sala.
(c) Mina.
(d) Martha.

3. Yanek's prisoner uniform features stripes in which two colors?
(a) Black and white.
(b) Blue and white.
(c) Gray and white.
(d) Blue and gray.

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

5. At the start of Chapter 18, Yanek vows to take which action every single morning from that point forward?
(a) Drink a cup of water.
(b) Write a poem.
(c) Say a prayer.
(d) Scrub his body.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?

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

3. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?

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

5. Upon arriving at the Trzebinia concentration camp, Yanek vows that he will not be killed without first taking what action?

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