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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 Yanek arrives at the Birkenau concentration camp, he cries for the first time since the occurrence of which event?
(a) The capture of his father.
(b) The death of his former bunkmate.
(c) The death of his Uncle Moshe.
(d) The capture of his mother.

2. The narrative of the novel starts at the beginning of what month?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) November.
(d) September.

3. Oskar bases his estimate of the war's length on his faith in which country's impending resolve to enter the war?
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) The United States.
(d) Great Britain.

4. What specific gift from the American soldiers does Yanek cry about when he holds it in his hands?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A toothbrush.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A pillow case.

5. When Yanek has the urge to strike the prisoner he has just helped, what does he do instead?
(a) He pounds his fists on the ground.
(b) He remains quiet.
(c) He strikes his own legs.
(d) He yells aloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?

2. When the prisoners at the Plaszow labor camp refer to Amon Goeth's "score," (71) to what are they referring?

3. As Yanek and the other prisoners travel from Gross-Rosen to Dachau, villagers of what nationality set out food for the Jewish prisoners' consumption?

4. How many barrels for collecting human waste are allocated to 500 prisoners at Birkenau?

5. Yanek's first assigned task after he is moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp is to move a pile of what objects from one site to another?

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