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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method do the Nazis use to transport Yanek and others when they are taken from the Krakow ghetto?
(a) Truck.
(b) On foot.
(c) Caravan.
(d) Train.

2. Yanek states that by the time the summer of what year arrives, he is the only member of his family who remains in the Krakow ghetto?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1944.

3. What is a "panzer," (7) according to Yanek?
(a) A wall.
(b) A gun.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A tank.

4. Which literary technique does Gratz use when he chooses the member of Yanek's family who will appear again at Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Irony.

5. Who is Amon Goeth?
(a) The Nazi Party Secretary.
(b) An executioner.
(c) A member of the SS.
(d) The commandant of the labor camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yanek states that "Amon Goeth wouldn't have" which meal "each day until he'd killed at least one Jew" (72)?

2. Oskar bases his estimate of the war's length on his faith in which country's impending resolve to enter the war?

3. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?

4. Which member of Yanek's family is he overjoyed to locate within the Plaszow labor camp?

5. Which members of Yanek's family weep continually as they listen to the sound of shots outside the pigeon coop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who hides within the pigeon coop on the roof of Yanek's apartment building?

2. How does the theme of determination emerge within Yanek's journey?

3. After what event in the narrative does Yanek state, "If I had only known then what I know now, I would have run" (3)?

4. What is Uncle Moshe's ultimate fate and how does Yanek discover it?

5. How and why does Yanek lose trust in his father Oskar's word?

6. How does Yanek contrast his own reaction to the closing of his school with the reactions of his peers?

7. Who witnesses the capture of Yanek's parents?

8. Who is Amon Goeth?

9. In what year, month, and physical setting does the novel Prisoner B-3087 open?

10. On what occasion is Yanek permitted to return to his family's former apartment?

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