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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 has his head shaven.
(b) He is whipped.
(c) He is assigned a work detail.
(d) He gets tattooed.

2. Yanek states that anyone caught trying to escape from the ghetto received what punishment?
(a) They were taken to a death camp.
(b) They were shot on sight.
(c) They were taken to a work camp.
(d) They were hung.

3. How many days are the prisoners into their journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen when Yanek begins to help a fellow prisoner keep going?
(a) 12 or 13.
(b) 9 or 10.
(c) 6 or 7.
(d) 3 or 4.

4. The protagonist goes by the name of Yanek, which is classified as what type of name?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) German.
(c) Polish.
(d) French.

5. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Sachsenhausen camp?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose advice is Yanek ignoring when he forms a close friendship with Fred?

2. About how many people are imprisoned within the Auschwitz concentration camp at the time Yanek and the others are moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?

3. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?

4. At the end of Chapter 18, Yanek has a dream that which person is chasing him?

5. 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)?

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