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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. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Sachsenhausen camp?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1943.
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) 9 or 10.
(b) 3 or 4.
(c) 12 or 13.
(d) 6 or 7.
3. About how many people are imprisoned within the Auschwitz concentration camp at the time Yanek and the others are moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,500.
4. Which nationality is not named in Yanek's portrait of the prisoners who begin singing Jewish songs in many different languages?
(a) Italian.
(b) Belgian.
(c) Czech.
(d) French.
5. How old is the younger Polish boy on the train platform who shouts at the passing train passengers that they will be transformed into a particular substance?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 12 or 13.
(c) 10 or 11.
(d) 5 or 6.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. Once Yanek's first dawn arrives at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Yanek sees that the camp is littered with what?
3. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp?
4. How old had Yanek been when World War II had begun?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the novel's title?
2. What is the source of the strange sound Yanek hears during his first night at Auschwitz?
3. For what reason does Fred become unable to work?
4. For what purpose do the Nazis use cattle cars and in what way is their use symbolic?
5. How does the theme of collectivism arise within Yanek's arrival at Auschwitz?
6. What small moment of triumph does Yanek experience during the transition from Auschwitz to another concentration camp?
7. What ominous warning does an SS guard give to Yanek as he enters Auschwitz?
8. What happens to Fred when he is unable to work?
9. What morning routine does Yanek develop during his time imprisoned in Birkenau and why does he consider the routine important?
10. What scent does Yanek detect in the air when he is brought to the Birkenau death camp?
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