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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the start of Chapter 18, Yanek vows to take which action every single morning from that point forward?
(a) Write a poem.
(b) Say a prayer.
(c) Scrub his body.
(d) Drink a cup of water.

2. Which member of Yanek's family feels most strongly that the family should come out of hiding?
(a) Uncle Moshe.
(b) Sala.
(c) Yanek.
(d) Uncle Abraham.

3. Which building in the now-abandoned ghetto of Krakow is Yanek assigned to clean after being taken there to work?
(a) A school.
(b) A hospital.
(c) His family's former apartment building.
(d) An art museum.

4. In the first sentence of the novel, Yanek declares that if he had known about the events to come in the next how many years, he "would have eaten more" (1) and not complained about his bedtime or chores?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

5. 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?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old had Yanek been when World War II had begun?

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

3. 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?

4. Which group of Yanek's family members argues with Oskar about his estimate of the war's length?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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