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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After standing in a minyan for a fellow prisoner's bar mitzvah, Yanek tells the young man that which fact is "all that matters" (134)?
(a) The Nazis are evil incarnate.
(b) They are alive.
(c) The Allies are on their way.
(d) They love God.

2. The Nazis make it a rule in Yanek's neighborhood in 1941 that how many families must live within each apartment?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

3. When Yanek is placed into a queue at the beginning of Chapter 17 and he hears screams up ahead, what happens when it is his turn?
(a) He is whipped.
(b) He is assigned a work detail.
(c) He has his head shaven.
(d) He gets tattooed.

4. Including Yanek, how many prisoners are moved to the location that turns out to be a salt mine?
(a) 20.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 500.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?

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

3. In the first sentence of the novel, Yanek declares that if he had known about the events to come in the next how many years, he "would have eaten more" (1) and not complained about his bedtime or chores?

4. 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?

5. Oskar bases his estimate of the war's length on his faith in which country's impending resolve to enter the war?

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