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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) Say a prayer.
(b) Write a poem.
(c) Drink a cup of water.
(d) Scrub his body.

2. One day when Yanek returns to the Plaszow labor camp, he is told that which member of his family is dead?
(a) Oskar.
(b) Uncle Moshe.
(c) Sala.
(d) Mina.

3. For how many hours does Yanek remain inside the motionless cattle car while the other cars are loaded with Jewish people?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

4. Including Yanek, how many prisoners are moved to the location that turns out to be a salt mine?
(a) 50.
(b) 500.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

5. Once a curfew was instituted in the ghetto, by what time of night were Jewish people required to be in their homes?
(a) 8.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?

2. How old is Yanek when he reaches the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after being moved from Auschwitz?

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. When Yanek has the urge to strike the prisoner he has just helped, what does he do instead?

5. What numerical term does Yanek use to describe the number of people who have died during the long train trip to Birkenau?

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