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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yanek recalls being told by an SS guard upon his entry into Auschwitz that the only way to get out of the camp involved which object?
(a) A noose.
(b) A chimney.
(c) A miracle.
(d) A bullet.

2. 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) 10 or 11.
(b) 12 or 13.
(c) 5 or 6.
(d) 3 or 4.

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

4. What substance is found to have been placed within the wounds of the man claiming to have the last name of Finkelstein?
(a) Motor oil.
(b) Salve.
(c) Salt.
(d) Lemon juice.

5. When Yanek arrives at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Chapter 24, it is his seventh concentration camp in "less than" how many "years" (196)?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

6. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Sachsenhausen camp?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1945.

7. When Yanek reaches the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he must sleep in a single bunk with how many other men?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

9. What location does every prisoner at Auschwitz do their best to avoid?
(a) The camp kitchens.
(b) The latrines.
(c) The camp clinic.
(d) The rock quarry.

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

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

12. When another train passes the train on which Yanek is riding in Chapter 15, Yanek discovers that his train is heading toward which concentration camp?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Bergen-Belsen.
(c) Birkenau.
(d) Treblinka.

13. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?
(a) The back of his neck.
(b) His right arm.
(c) His left arm.
(d) His left calf.

14. 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 beaten.
(c) He is not fed for one week.
(d) He is shot.

15. How many Jewish men are required to form a minyan?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 17, after Yanek verbally surrenders to death inside the gas chamber, what substance comes out of the showerhead instead of gas?

2. How many days are the prisoners into their journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen when Yanek begins to help a fellow prisoner keep going?

3. At the start of Chapter 18, Yanek vows to take which action every single morning from that point forward?

4. 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?

5. How many barrels for collecting human waste are allocated to 500 prisoners at Birkenau?

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