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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 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?
(a) He has a grizzled beard.
(b) He has sunken and bloodshot eyes.
(c) He has deep cracks in his face.
(d) He wears eyeglasses.

2. 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) 2,500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 3,000.

3. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?
(a) A frog.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A horse.
(d) A dog.

4. At the end of Chapter 14, a young boy is punished in what way when he is falsely accused of trying to escape?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is not fed for one week.
(c) He is beaten.
(d) He is publicly hung.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Yanek lose while providing assistance to another prisoner on the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?

2. Whose advice is Yanek ignoring when he forms a close friendship with Fred?

3. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?

4. With what type of weapon does the kapo hit both Fred and Yanek in Chapter 20?

5. After standing in a minyan for a fellow prisoner's bar mitzvah, Yanek tells the young man that which fact is "all that matters" (134)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Fred when he is unable to work?

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

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

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

5. For what purpose do the Nazis use cattle cars and in what way is their use symbolic?

6. What small moment of triumph does Yanek experience during the transition from Auschwitz to another concentration camp?

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

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

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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