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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yanek's visit to which location saves him from his parents' fate of being taken by the Nazis?
(a) A museum.
(b) A friend's house.
(c) A synagogue.
(d) His uncle's bakery.

2. What is the name of Yanek's mother and Oskar's wife?
(a) Lena.
(b) Martha.
(c) Mina.
(d) Sala.

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

4. In what city does the narrative of Prisoner B-3087 open?
(a) Paris.
(b) Brussels.
(c) Krakow.
(d) Berlin.

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

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

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

8. Which prophet does Oskar name when pointing out the merits of Yanek's plan about the pigeon coop?
(a) Jeremiah.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Ezekiel.

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

10. In Chapter 4, Oskar relents and takes Yanek out past curfew to what type of location?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A cafeteria.
(c) A synagogue.
(d) A barn.

11. How many members of Yanek's family are living within the rooftop pigeon coop at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

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

13. What is a "panzer," (7) according to Yanek?
(a) A wall.
(b) A tank.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A gun.

14. On what street do Yanek and his family live in an apartment at the time the narrative begins?
(a) Krakusa Street.
(b) Florianska Street.
(c) Jagiellonska Street.
(d) Grodzka Street.

15. How old is Yanek when his parents are captured and taken away by the Nazis?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?

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

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

4. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?

5. Which literary technique does Gratz use when he chooses the member of Yanek's family who will appear again at Plaszow labor camp?

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