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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The night after the man claiming to have the surname of Finkelstein dies, Yanek dreams that statues made of what substance come to life?
(a) Ice.
(b) Salt.
(c) Iron.
(d) Copper.

3. Who is Oskar?
(a) Yanek's uncle.
(b) Yanek's cousin.
(c) Yanek's father.
(d) Yanek's grandfather.

4. Once Yanek realizes that his parents have been captured by the Nazis, his pain soon turns to "a stirring of" (61) which emotion?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Determination.
(c) Self-preservation.
(d) Rage.

5. The director of the Judenrat informs the people of Krakow that he has been ordered by the Nazis to hand over how many thousands of Jewish people the following morning?
(a) 50.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the salt mine in which Yanek is put to work in 1943?

2. The Nazis make it a rule in Yanek's neighborhood in 1941 that how many families must live within each apartment?

3. Yanek recalls being told by an SS guard upon his entry into Auschwitz that the only way to get out of the camp involved which object?

4. At what age does a young Jewish man prepare to have a bar mitzvah?

5. Which nationality is not named in Yanek's portrait of the prisoners who begin singing Jewish songs in many different languages?

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