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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once a curfew was instituted in the ghetto, by what time of night were Jewish people required to be in their homes?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

2. The Sachsenhausen concentration camp's gates display the same motto as which other concentration camp in which Yanek has lived?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Plaszow.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Wieliczka.

3. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?
(a) Screaming.
(b) The rattling of the rooftop door.
(c) Crying children.
(d) Gunshots.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What breed of dog is used by the Nazis in charge of the Plaszow labor camp?

2. Yanek's prisoner uniform features stripes in which two colors?

3. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp?

4. As Yanek and the other prisoners enter the gates of Auschwitz, they see a sign announcing that "work is" (148) what?

5. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the new addition to camp that is officially called "new camp B III" (136)?

(see the answer key)

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