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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what type of material is the floor of Yanek's barrack at Birkenau made?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Metal.
(c) Mud.
(d) Wood.

2. With what object is the man beaten to death after it is determined that his name is not really Finkelstein?
(a) A rock.
(b) A shovel.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A brick.

3. What is Yanek's first sign that his parents may have been captured by the Nazis?
(a) Uncle Abraham says he had seen them being led away.
(b) He believes he sees them being led away.
(c) He finds a note they had left for him.
(d) He returns to the pigeon coop to find them missing.

4. 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?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 3,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how many hours does Yanek remain inside the motionless cattle car while the other cars are loaded with Jewish people?

3. How old is the younger Polish boy on the train platform who shouts at the passing train passengers that they will be transformed into a particular substance?

4. Oskar tells the rest of the family that the war that would come to be called World War II would last how long?

5. To what location does Yanek flee whenever the Rosenblum girls begin to argue too loudly in Yanek's family's apartment?

(see the answer key)

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