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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 sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) Crying children.
(d) The rattling of the rooftop door.

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

3. 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) 1944.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1941.

4. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?
(a) A shoemaker shop.
(b) A butcher shop.
(c) A tailor shop.
(d) A sundries shop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sorts of objects does Oskar sell in his store before it is seized by Nazis?

2. On what street do Yanek and his family live in an apartment at the time the narrative begins?

3. What breed of dog is used by the Nazis in charge of the Plaszow labor camp?

4. At the end of Chapter 3, what action does Yanek take for the first time?

5. In what country does the narrative of Prisoner B-3087 open?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Yanek acquire 2,000 units of the currency called zloty?

5. When the Judenrat hold a meeting in Zgody Square, what announcement do they make?

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

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

8. In Chapter 8, Yanek and his father begin to leave the pigeon coop each day for what purpose?

9. Which of Yanek's family members teaches him about the importance of remaining invisible?

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

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