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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 happens to the community synagogue in Yanek's neighborhood?
(a) It is shot up.
(b) It is taken over by Nazis.
(c) It is defaced with graffiti.
(d) It is burned down.

2. What is Yanek's first sign that Fred has contracted an illness?
(a) He vomits.
(b) He wakes up bathed in sweat.
(c) He cannot get out of bed.
(d) He is slower at chopping wood than he normally is.

3. In what season of the year are Yanek and the other prisoners at Auschwitz moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

4. How many times per week do the Nazis conduct Resettlements in Yanek's city, as they are described in Chapter 6?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

5. What happens to the man who runs into the street in an attempt to save the synagogue from damage in Chapter 2?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is unable to keep the flood at bay.
(c) He is unable to put out the flames.
(d) He is unable to scrub the graffiti from its walls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The radio tower Yanek sees as he and the other prisoners approach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is located in what city?

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. In what year is Yanek moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp?

5. Yanek tells the reader in Chapter 6 that he would trade "a week's worth of rations" (37) for one serving of which food prepared by his mother?

(see the answer key)

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