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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Yanek has the urge to strike the prisoner he has just helped, what does he do instead?
2. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?
3. 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?
4. What food item do the Nazis provide to each prisoner that they say must last for the entirety of the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
5. What location does every prisoner at Auschwitz do their best to avoid?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss an instance when Gratz uses a literary device to indicate the preciousness of food.
2. What is different about Yanek's experience at Bergen-Belsen, in relation to his previous experiences with concentration camps?
3. What is the source of the strange sound Yanek hears during his first night at Auschwitz?
4. How does the theme of altruism arise within the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
5. What scent does Yanek detect in the air when he is brought to the Birkenau death camp?
6. At what point do Yanek and the other new arrivals to the Birkenau death camp realize that they have been spared for the moment?
7. What distinction does Yanek make between the Trzebinia concentration camp and the other camps in which he has been imprisoned?
8. What happens to Fred when he is unable to work?
9. To what location is Yanek sent after he is removed from the Plaszow concentration camp?
10. For what purpose do the Nazis use cattle cars and in what way is their use symbolic?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Gratz’s novel Prisoner B-3087. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Could Prisoner B-3087 be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Prisoner B-3087 and one of the novel's main messages. How does Gratz make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help them get across one main message of the novel?
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