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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the long train journey Yanek experiences in Chapter 15, he wakes up to discover that what event has taken place?
(a) The cattle car has begun to fill up with smoke.
(b) The cattle car has begun to fill up with water.
(c) The man standing next to him has died.
(d) He can no longer feel his own feet.

2. As Yanek and the other prisoners enter the gates of Auschwitz, they see a sign announcing that "work is" (148) what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Healing.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Mandatory.

3. For what reason is Yanek's family unable to warm themselves while living in the rooftop pigeon coop?
(a) The heat from a fire would be too extreme within a small space.
(b) Smoke from a fire will give away their location.
(c) No one has a way to acquire matches.
(d) Smoke from a fire will overwhelm the small space.

4. When Yanek reaches the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he must sleep in a single bunk with how many other men?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

5. What is NOT something Yanek associates with his formerly safe and happy self?
(a) American movies.
(b) Books.
(c) Science.
(d) Bicycle rides.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the start of Chapter 19, Yanek states that when he gets to Auschwitz, he is how old?

2. By the end of Chapter 17, Yanek states that he has been imprisoned in concentration camps for what length of time?

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

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?

5. The director of the Judenrat informs the people of Krakow that he has been ordered by the Nazis to hand over how many thousands of Jewish people the following morning?

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