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

2. How many barrels for collecting human waste are allocated to 500 prisoners at Birkenau?
(a) 24.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

3. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?
(a) A tailor.
(b) A Judenrat police officer.
(c) An SS guard.
(d) A kapo.

4. At the end of Chapter 18, Yanek has a dream that which person is chasing him?
(a) Uncle Moshe.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Amon Goethe.
(d) Dr. Mengele.

5. With what object is the man beaten to death after it is determined that his name is not really Finkelstein?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A brick.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When Yanek has the urge to strike the prisoner he has just helped, what does he do instead?

3. Of what type of material is the floor of Yanek's barrack at Birkenau made?

4. Upon arriving at the Trzebinia concentration camp, Yanek vows that he will not be killed without first taking what action?

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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What scent does Yanek detect in the air when he is brought to the Birkenau death camp?

2. What happens to the men and boys accused of plotting escape from the Trzebinia and what proof does Yanek have of their innocence?

3. On which two occasions does Yanek vow to take every step he can "never to forget" (161) the atrocities committed during the Holocaust?

4. Which qualities of new prisoners help Yanek to qualify certain individuals as such?

5. How does the theme of collectivism arise within Yanek's arrival at Auschwitz?

6. For what reason does Fred become unable to work?

7. What happens to the prisoner who is recognized by the others at the salt mine as a former member of the Judenrat?

8. Which objects in the salt mine does Yanek consider aesthetically beautiful?

9. What is the source of the strange sound Yanek hears during his first night at Auschwitz?

10. Discuss an instance when Gratz uses a literary device to indicate the preciousness of food.

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