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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Yanek and the other prisoners enter the gates of Auschwitz, they see a sign announcing that "work is" (148) what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Mandatory.
(d) Healing.

2. During the long train journey Yanek experiences in Chapter 15, he wakes up to discover that what event has taken place?
(a) The cattle car has begun to fill up with water.
(b) He can no longer feel his own feet.
(c) The man standing next to him has died.
(d) The cattle car has begun to fill up with smoke.

3. The term "Muselmann" (96) is used by prisoners to refer to a person with what condition?
(a) Shingles.
(b) Rickets.
(c) Severe malnutrition.
(d) Gout.

4. With what object is the man beaten to death after it is determined that his name is not really Finkelstein?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A rock.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A brick.

5. For what length of time is Yanek imprisoned at the Birkenau concentration camp before being moved to Auschwitz?
(a) A few months.
(b) Less than six months.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) Several years.

6. What method do the Nazis use to murder Fred once he becomes ill?
(a) Shooting.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Suffocation.

7. How old is the younger Polish boy on the train platform who shouts at the passing train passengers that they will be transformed into a particular substance?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 12 or 13.
(c) 10 or 11.
(d) 5 or 6.

8. At the end of Chapter 18, Yanek has a dream that which person is chasing him?
(a) Amon Goethe.
(b) Uncle Moshe.
(c) Dr. Mengele.
(d) Adolf Hitler.

9. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?
(a) A tailor.
(b) A kapo.
(c) An SS guard.
(d) A Judenrat police officer.

10. At the start of Chapter 18, Yanek vows to take which action every single morning from that point forward?
(a) Write a poem.
(b) Scrub his body.
(c) Drink a cup of water.
(d) Say a prayer.

11. In Chapter 17, after Yanek verbally surrenders to death inside the gas chamber, what substance comes out of the showerhead instead of gas?
(a) Rust.
(b) Water.
(c) Milk.
(d) Steam.

12. What action does Yanek take as he eats Fred's bread on the evening immediately following Fred's murder?
(a) He whispers quietly to Fred's spirit.
(b) He says a kaddish.
(c) He closes his eyes.
(d) He folds his hands.

13. At the start of Chapter 19, Yanek states that when he gets to Auschwitz, he is how old?
(a) 12 or 13.
(b) 9 or 10.
(c) 15 or 16.
(d) 17 or 18.

14. Which nationality is not named in Yanek's portrait of the prisoners who begin singing Jewish songs in many different languages?
(a) French.
(b) Czech.
(c) Belgian.
(d) Italian.

15. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Excrement.
(b) Disinfectant.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Urine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Yanek moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp?

2. What is Yanek's first sign that Fred has contracted an illness?

3. Of what type of material is the floor of Yanek's barrack at Birkenau made?

4. The radio tower Yanek sees as he and the other prisoners approach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is located in what city?

5. The Sachsenhausen concentration camp's gates display the same motto as which other concentration camp in which Yanek has lived?

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