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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a physical characteristic of the prisoner who steps in to help Yanek support the weight of his fellow prisoner on the trip from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
(a) He has sunken and bloodshot eyes.
(b) He has a grizzled beard.
(c) He wears eyeglasses.
(d) He has deep cracks in his face.

2. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1945.

3. What numerical term does Yanek use to describe the number of people who have died during the long train trip to Birkenau?
(a) One dozen.
(b) Scores.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Several dozen.

4. Yanek's visit to which location saves him from his parents' fate of being taken by the Nazis?
(a) His uncle's bakery.
(b) A friend's house.
(c) A synagogue.
(d) A museum.

5. In Chapter 17, after Yanek verbally surrenders to death inside the gas chamber, what substance comes out of the showerhead instead of gas?
(a) Steam.
(b) Milk.
(c) Rust.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sachsenhausen concentration camp's gates display the same motto as which other concentration camp in which Yanek has lived?

2. Yanek states that by the time the summer of what year arrives, he is the only member of his family who remains in the Krakow ghetto?

3. What does the German word "schnell" (64) mean when translated into English?

4. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?

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

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