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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. Which nationality is not named in Yanek's portrait of the prisoners who begin singing Jewish songs in many different languages?
(a) Belgian.
(b) Italian.
(c) Czech.
(d) French.

2. When Yanek has the urge to strike the prisoner he has just helped, what does he do instead?
(a) He strikes his own legs.
(b) He yells aloud.
(c) He remains quiet.
(d) He pounds his fists on the ground.

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

4. Whose advice is Yanek ignoring when he forms a close friendship with Fred?
(a) Mina's.
(b) Uncle Moshe's.
(c) Uncle Abraham's.
(d) Oskar's.

5. The radio tower Yanek sees as he and the other prisoners approach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is located in what city?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Brussels.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. How old is Yanek when he reaches the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after being moved from Auschwitz?

3. Though Yanek knows that he is still a young man when he arrives at Auschwitz, he declares that he appears to be a man of what age?

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

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What morning routine does Yanek develop during his time imprisoned in Birkenau and why does he consider the routine important?

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

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

4. At what point do Yanek and the other new arrivals to the Birkenau death camp realize that they have been spared for the moment?

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

6. To what location is Yanek sent after he is removed from the Plaszow concentration camp?

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

8. Whose advice must Yanek ignore in order to make friends with Fred?

9. What ominous warning does an SS guard give to Yanek as he enters Auschwitz?

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

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