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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of structure becomes a home for Yanek and his family beginning in Chapter 5?
(a) A utility room.
(b) An underground bunker.
(c) A pigeon coop.
(d) A custodial closet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In what country does the narrative of Prisoner B-3087 open?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Poland.
(d) France.

9. Yanek states that "Amon Goeth wouldn't have" which meal "each day until he'd killed at least one Jew" (72)?
(a) Supper.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Lunch.

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

11. Yanek states that by the time the summer of what year arrives, he is the only member of his family who remains in the Krakow ghetto?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1942.

12. Yanek states that anyone caught trying to escape from the ghetto received what punishment?
(a) They were taken to a work camp.
(b) They were hung.
(c) They were taken to a death camp.
(d) They were shot on sight.

13. In the first sentence of the novel, Yanek declares that if he had known about the events to come in the next how many years, he "would have eaten more" (1) and not complained about his bedtime or chores?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

14. One evening, the Nazis announce that if all Jewish people do not go home by what time of night, they will be shot once they are found?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

15. One day when Yanek returns to the Plaszow labor camp, he is told that which member of his family is dead?
(a) Sala.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Uncle Moshe.
(d) Mina.

Short Answer Questions

1. The director of the Judenrat informs the people of Krakow that he has been ordered by the Nazis to hand over how many thousands of Jewish people the following morning?

2. In Chapter 4, Oskar relents and takes Yanek out past curfew to what type of location?

3. Yanek's visit to which location saves him from his parents' fate of being taken by the Nazis?

4. Which member of Yanek's family owns a bakery?

5. Which building in the now-abandoned ghetto of Krakow is Yanek assigned to clean after being taken there to work?

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