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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 synagogue.
(b) A museum.
(c) His uncle's bakery.
(d) A friend's house.

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

3. Which member of Yanek's family owns a bakery?
(a) Uncle Abraham.
(b) Mina.
(c) Oskar.
(d) Sala.

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

5. The narrative of the novel starts at the beginning of what month?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) December.

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

7. Across the street from Yanek's family's apartment building lies what kind of temporary institution?
(a) A post office.
(b) A census office.
(c) A school.
(d) A hospital.

8. 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.

9. Oskar bases his estimate of the war's length on his faith in which country's impending resolve to enter the war?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) The United States.
(c) Poland.
(d) France.

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

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) 1942.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1945.

12. Which member of Yanek's family feels most strongly that the family should remain in hiding within the pigeon coop?
(a) Uncle Abraham.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Uncle Moshe.
(d) Yanek.

13. 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) A hospital.
(d) His family's former apartment building.

14. What object does Yanek's family use to cover the small window in the pigeon coop?
(a) A scarf.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A sheet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Yanek tells the reader in Chapter 6 that he would trade "a week's worth of rations" (37) for one serving of which food prepared by his mother?

2. When the prisoners at the Plaszow labor camp refer to Amon Goeth's "score," (71) to what are they referring?

3. Oskar tells the rest of the family that the war that would come to be called World War II would last how long?

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. When Chapter 6 arrives, how old is Yanek?

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