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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?
(a) Rain.
(b) Sleet.
(c) Snow.
(d) Wind.

2. Yanek's prisoner uniform features stripes in which two colors?
(a) Blue and white.
(b) Gray and white.
(c) Blue and gray.
(d) Black and white.

3. 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) Machetes.
(b) Pistols.
(c) Machine guns.
(d) Bayonets.

4. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?
(a) 1940-1941.
(b) 1941-1945.
(c) 1944-1945.
(d) 1942-1943.

5. What is the legal first name of the novel's protagonist, though he goes by the name Yanek?
(a) Jakob.
(b) Hans.
(c) Jedediah.
(d) Jacques.

6. Which literary technique does Gratz use when he chooses the member of Yanek's family who will appear again at Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Irony.

7. 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) No one has a way to acquire matches.
(c) Smoke from a fire will overwhelm the small space.
(d) Smoke from a fire will give away their location.

8. Which member of Yanek's family feels most strongly that the family should come out of hiding?
(a) Sala.
(b) Uncle Moshe.
(c) Yanek.
(d) Uncle Abraham.

9. At the end of Chapter 3, what action does Yanek take for the first time?
(a) He doubts his father's word.
(b) He lies.
(c) He curses.
(d) He doubts his uncle's word.

10. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?
(a) A sundries shop.
(b) A butcher shop.
(c) A tailor shop.
(d) A shoemaker shop.

11. How many times per week do the Nazis conduct Resettlements in Yanek's city, as they are described in Chapter 6?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 7.

12. What happens to the man who runs into the street in an attempt to save the synagogue from damage in Chapter 2?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is unable to scrub the graffiti from its walls.
(c) He is unable to put out the flames.
(d) He is unable to keep the flood at bay.

13. Who is Oskar?
(a) Yanek's uncle.
(b) Yanek's cousin.
(c) Yanek's grandfather.
(d) Yanek's father.

14. Once a curfew was instituted in the ghetto, by what time of night were Jewish people required to be in their homes?
(a) 6.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

15. Which building in the now-abandoned ghetto of Krakow is Yanek assigned to clean after being taken there to work?
(a) A school.
(b) An art museum.
(c) His family's former apartment building.
(d) A hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does the narrative of Prisoner B-3087 open?

2. Yanek states that "Amon Goeth wouldn't have" which meal "each day until he'd killed at least one Jew" (72)?

3. The Nazis make it a rule in Yanek's neighborhood in 1941 that how many families must live within each apartment?

4. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?

5. On what street do Yanek and his family live in an apartment at the time the narrative begins?

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