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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many days are the prisoners into their journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen when Yanek begins to help a fellow prisoner keep going?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 6 or 7.
(c) 9 or 10.
(d) 12 or 13.

3. When Yanek makes his way to the front of the line to see Dr. Mengle at Auschwitz, how old does he claim to be?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

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

5. What are the two different colors of stripes on the prisoners' uniforms at Auschwitz?
(a) Blue and red.
(b) White and gray.
(c) Blue and gray.
(d) Black and white.

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

7. 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?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Firewood.
(c) Bricks.
(d) Rocks.

8. What is NOT something Yanek associates with his formerly safe and happy self?
(a) Books.
(b) Science.
(c) American movies.
(d) Bicycle rides.

9. 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) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

10. What is NOT a physical characteristic of the prisoner who steps in to help Yanek support the weight of his fellow prisoner on the trip from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
(a) He wears eyeglasses.
(b) He has a grizzled beard.
(c) He has sunken and bloodshot eyes.
(d) He has deep cracks in his face.

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

12. Once Yanek finds out where his train is headed in Chapter 15, a man nearby gives Yanek advice about what topic?
(a) Grief.
(b) Murder.
(c) The gas chambers.
(d) Religion.

13. In what year is Yanek moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1942.

14. 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.

15. 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) Treblinka.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Birkenau.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Yanek and the other prisoners enter the gates of Auschwitz, they see a sign announcing that "work is" (148) what?

2. For what length of time is Yanek imprisoned at the Birkenau concentration camp before being moved to Auschwitz?

3. When new prisoners are brought to Auschwitz in Chapter 19, a long-time prisoner whispers to them that any children among them should claim to be what age?

4. What food item do the Nazis provide to each prisoner that they say must last for the entirety of the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?

5. What location does every prisoner at Auschwitz do their best to avoid?

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