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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Nazis guarding Yanek and the others with him as they are removed from the Krakow ghetto are armed with which kind of weapons?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Machetes.
(c) Bayonets.
(d) Pistols.

2. Who is Amon Goeth?
(a) A member of the SS.
(b) The Nazi Party Secretary.
(c) An executioner.
(d) The commandant of the labor camp.

3. How many prisoners are living within the Dachau barracks that Yanek says had been built to house 250 prisoners?
(a) 750.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

4. To what location is Yanek first assigned after he arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp?
(a) A stone quarry.
(b) A laundering facility.
(c) A kitchen.
(d) A tailoring shop.

5. When Yanek arrives at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Chapter 24, it is his seventh concentration camp in "less than" how many "years" (196)?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?

2. The prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp who are forced to pull rocks behind them in carts are also forced to take what action at the same time?

3. What is the name of the salt mine in which Yanek is put to work in 1943?

4. Yanek describes the different concentration camps in which he has been imprisoned as "different rooms" (212) in what location?

5. The night after the man claiming to have the surname of Finkelstein dies, Yanek dreams that statues made of what substance come to life?

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