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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?
(a) A dog.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A frog.
(d) A horse.

4. The radio tower Yanek sees as he and the other prisoners approach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is located in what city?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Paris.
(d) Brussels.

5. About how many people are imprisoned within the Auschwitz concentration camp at the time Yanek and the others are moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 5,000.

6. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the new addition to camp that is officially called "new camp B III" (136)?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Baja.

7. Upon arriving at the Trzebinia concentration camp, Yanek vows that he will not be killed without first taking what action?
(a) Saying goodbye to his bunkmates.
(b) Fighting back.
(c) Saying a prayer of remembrance for his family.
(d) Murdering at least one Nazi.

8. After standing in a minyan for a fellow prisoner's bar mitzvah, Yanek tells the young man that which fact is "all that matters" (134)?
(a) They are alive.
(b) The Nazis are evil incarnate.
(c) The Allies are on their way.
(d) They love God.

9. Once Yanek's first dawn arrives at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Yanek sees that the camp is littered with what?
(a) Nazi flags.
(b) Corpses.
(c) Personal effects of the dead.
(d) Shell casings.

10. Though Yanek knows that he is still a young man when he arrives at Auschwitz, he declares that he appears to be a man of what age?
(a) 60.
(b) 80.
(c) 50.
(d) 40.

11. At the end of Chapter 14, a young boy is punished in what way when he is falsely accused of trying to escape?
(a) He is publicly hung.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is not fed for one week.
(d) He is beaten.

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

13. What is Yanek's first sign that Fred has contracted an illness?
(a) He wakes up bathed in sweat.
(b) He is slower at chopping wood than he normally is.
(c) He vomits.
(d) He cannot get out of bed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Jewish men are required to form a minyan?

2. What numerical term does Yanek use to describe the number of people who have died during the long train trip to Birkenau?

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

4. Once Yanek finds out where his train is headed in Chapter 15, a man nearby gives Yanek advice about what topic?

5. Yanek's first assigned task after he is moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp is to move a pile of what objects from one site to another?

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