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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) 5 or 6.
(b) 10 or 11.
(c) 12 or 13.
(d) 3 or 4.

3. The young Polish boy in Chapter 15 shouts at the passing train passengers that they will soon be turned into what substance?
(a) Vapor.
(b) Paste.
(c) Glue.
(d) Soap.

4. The Nazis guarding Yanek and the others with him as they are removed from the Krakow ghetto are armed with which kind of weapons?
(a) Pistols.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Machetes.
(d) Bayonets.

5. Yanek recalls being told by an SS guard upon his entry into Auschwitz that the only way to get out of the camp involved which object?
(a) A miracle.
(b) A bullet.
(c) A noose.
(d) A chimney.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of Chapter 17, Yanek states that he has been imprisoned in concentration camps for what length of time?

2. How old is Yanek when his parents are captured and taken away by the Nazis?

3. 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?

4. How many members of Yanek's family are living within the rooftop pigeon coop at the start of Chapter 7?

5. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?

(see the answer key)

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