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

2. When the Nazis come to Krakow and empty its hospitals, what do they do with the patients?
(a) They shoot them in the street.
(b) They send them back to their families.
(c) They move them to a different hospital.
(d) They send them to concentration camps.

3. Yanek is punished with a whipping for the transgression of losing what object?
(a) His armband.
(b) His carrying strap.
(c) His scarf.
(d) A shirt button.

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

5. When new prisoners are brought to Auschwitz in Chapter 19, a long-time prisoner whispers to them that any children among them should claim to be what age?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist goes by the name of Yanek, which is classified as what type of name?

2. How much money does Yanek find during his work detail in the abandoned ghetto of Krakow?

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

4. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?

5. What is the name of Yanek's mother and Oskar's wife?

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