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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chapter 6 arrives, how old is Yanek?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 12.

2. How many barrels for collecting human waste are allocated to 500 prisoners at Birkenau?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 24.

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

4. To what location does Yanek flee whenever the Rosenblum girls begin to argue too loudly in Yanek's family's apartment?
(a) The hallway.
(b) The pigeon coop.
(c) The rooftop.
(d) The attic.

5. The "Sachsenhausen salute" involves torturing a prisoner by forcing him to remain in what type of position for hours at a time without moving?
(a) A seated position.
(b) A kneeling position.
(c) A squatting position.
(d) A standing position.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp?

2. How many days are the prisoners into their journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen when Yanek begins to help a fellow prisoner keep going?

3. What kind of animal is NOT mentioned as as a part of the Buchenwald zoo?

4. What method do the Nazis use to transport Yanek and others when they are taken from the Krakow ghetto?

5. The SS guards who tie an animal to a fence are punished by senior officers in what way?

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