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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. Yanek's first assigned task after he is moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp is to move a pile of what objects from one site to another?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Firewood.
(d) Rocks.

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

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) 3,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,500.

4. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?
(a) His left arm.
(b) The back of his neck.
(c) His left calf.
(d) His right arm.

5. When new prisoners are brought to Auschwitz in Chapter 19, a long-time prisoner whispers to them that any children among them should claim to be what age?
(a) 18.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?

2. The Sachsenhausen concentration camp's gates display the same motto as which other concentration camp in which Yanek has lived?

3. How many Jewish men are required to form a minyan?

4. The term "Muselmann" (96) is used by prisoners to refer to a person with what condition?

5. Including Yanek, how many prisoners are moved to the location that turns out to be a salt mine?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What distinction does Yanek make between the Trzebinia concentration camp and the other camps in which he has been imprisoned?

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

4. How does Yanek find out that the train's destination is Birkenau before the train arrives there?

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

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

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

8. What is different about Yanek's experience at Bergen-Belsen, in relation to his previous experiences with concentration camps?

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

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

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