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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other food does Daniel's father barter to get to eat with their rations as Auschwitz?
(a) More bread.
(b) Thristles.
(c) Weeds.
(d) Sausage and cheese.

2. What is a kapo?
(a) A German soldier.
(b) A soup.
(c) A Jewish soldier.
(d) A prisoner in charge.

3. With whom does Father develop a good bartering system with at their new camp?
(a) Polish Jews.
(b) Karl.
(c) Politicial prisoners.
(d) The SS.

4. After Daniel and his father arrive at Auschwitz, where do they go to work?
(a) Monowitz.
(b) Auschwitz I.
(c) Theresienstadt.
(d) Birkenau.

5. Why is Daniel determined to live?
(a) To bear witness against the Germans.
(b) To revenge his grandparents.
(c) To help his family.
(d) To find Rosa.

6. When Daniel is ordered out of the freight car, who helps them out of the car?
(a) Guns.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Prisoners in striped pajamas.
(d) Women.

7. What happens to Daniel and the others' heads when the barbers shave them at Auschwitz?
(a) They are careful.
(b) They are happy.
(c) They are deloused.
(d) They are cut.

8. Whom does Daniel talk to about whether or not to join the resistance?
(a) His father.
(b) Erika.
(c) Adam.
(d) Uncle Ned.

9. At Auschwitz, what is located in the area Daniel calls Canada?
(a) Wood.
(b) Supplies.
(c) Stolen loot from prisoners.
(d) Food.

10. What happens to Adam after the uprising?
(a) He is imprisoned.
(b) He continues to work in fear.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He escapes.

11. When Daniel is running an errand to get chemicals, whom does he see on the street?
(a) Father.
(b) Rosa.
(c) The SS soldier.
(d) Peter.

12. According to Rosa's mother, what is Auschwitz?
(a) A place of German soldiers.
(b) A ghetto.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) A death camp.

13. According to Daniel, what had the Nazis created for themselves at his new camp?
(a) A squalor.
(b) A community.
(c) A paradise.
(d) A heaven.

14. What is the first act that father and Daniel perform for the resistance their new camp?
(a) Bartering for better tools.
(b) Sharing bread.
(c) Taking photographs.
(d) Dismantling machines.

15. How do the German SS act when the new transports arrive?
(a) Jovially.
(b) Brutualy.
(c) Nicely.
(d) Meanly.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Daniel's first night in Auschwitz, what is the only he sounds he can hear once the lights are turned off?

2. What big resistance act does Adam refer to?

3. What does Daniel feel when he witnessed the bodies being burned in the pit?

4. In their new barracks at Auschwitz, Daniel and his father must sleep on what?

5. What does Daniel want to tell those just arriving at the Auschwitz camp?

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