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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What numerical term does Yanek use to describe the number of people who have died during the long train trip to Birkenau?
(a) One dozen.
(b) Scores.
(c) Several dozen.
(d) Hundreds.

2. What is the first boon Yanek receives as a result of finding money in Krakow?
(a) An orange.
(b) A stick of butter.
(c) An egg.
(d) Half a loaf of bread.

3. Which literary technique does Gratz use when he chooses the member of Yanek's family who will appear again at Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Irony.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Hyperbole.

4. Which group of Yanek's family members argues with Oskar about his estimate of the war's length?
(a) Yanek's brothers.
(b) Yanek's cousins.
(c) Yanek's grandparents.
(d) Yanek's uncles.

5. During the long train journey Yanek experiences in Chapter 15, he wakes up to discover that what event has taken place?
(a) He can no longer feel his own feet.
(b) The cattle car has begun to fill up with water.
(c) The man standing next to him has died.
(d) The cattle car has begun to fill up with smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the camp storehouse that holds items stolen from Jewish prisoners?

2. What does the German word "schnell" (64) mean when translated into English?

3. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?

4. In what year is Yanek moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp?

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

(see the answer key)

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