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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, the first prisoners to die along the way according to Yanek are the prisoners without what?
(a) Food.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Water.

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

3. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the camp storehouse that holds items stolen from Jewish prisoners?
(a) California.
(b) Canada.
(c) Panama.
(d) Peru.

4. 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) 16.
(d) 14.

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

6. 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 has a grizzled beard.
(b) He has sunken and bloodshot eyes.
(c) He wears eyeglasses.
(d) He has deep cracks in his face.

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

8. 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) 80.
(b) 40.
(c) 60.
(d) 50.

9. 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?
(a) One biscuit.
(b) A packet of gruel.
(c) One loaf of bread.
(d) Half a loaf of bread.

10. How old had Yanek been when World War II had begun?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

11. Yanek is able to obtain what item of clothing at Birkenau that he considers crucial for his survival?
(a) A hat.
(b) A pair of shoes.
(c) A coat.
(d) A scarf.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the salt mine in which Yanek is put to work in 1943?

2. When Yanek helps a fellow prisoner to continue on with the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, what body part of the prisoner's does Yanek prop up onto his own body?

3. What item does Yanek lose while providing assistance to another prisoner on the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?

4. At the end of Chapter 18, Yanek has a dream that which person is chasing him?

5. As Yanek consumes snow from the cattle car's ventilation grate, he has a moment of longing for which of his late family members?

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