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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. The Nazis guarding Yanek and the others with him as they are removed from the Krakow ghetto are armed with which kind of weapons?
(a) Pistols.
(b) Machetes.
(c) Bayonets.
(d) Machine guns.

2. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?
(a) Sala and Dawid's son.
(b) Dawid.
(c) Sala.
(d) Sala and Dawid's daughter.

3. On what street do Yanek and his family live in an apartment at the time the narrative begins?
(a) Krakusa Street.
(b) Jagiellonska Street.
(c) Grodzka Street.
(d) Florianska Street.

4. One day when Yanek returns to the Plaszow labor camp, he is told that which member of his family is dead?
(a) Uncle Moshe.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Sala.
(d) Mina.

5. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?
(a) Mina.
(b) Uncle Abraham.
(c) Aunt Fela.
(d) Uncle Moshe.

Short Answer Questions

1. One evening, the Nazis announce that if all Jewish people do not go home by what time of night, they will be shot once they are found?

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

3. What is the legal first name of the novel's protagonist, though he goes by the name Yanek?

4. When the prisoners at the Plaszow labor camp refer to Amon Goeth's "score," (71) to what are they referring?

5. In the first sentence of the novel, Yanek declares that if he had known about the events to come in the next how many years, he "would have eaten more" (1) and not complained about his bedtime or chores?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what purpose is the bakery belonging to Aun Fela and Uncle Abraham secretly and altruistically used?

2. What message about the fear of the unknown is depicted within the novel and in what scene does the theme appear?

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

4. How does Gratz depict a change in Yanek that occurs after he has his bar mitzvah?

5. In what way does Yanek discover that his Uncle Moshe is alive?

6. How does Gratz employ foreshadowing in association with Mina's wedding ring?

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

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

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

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

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