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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Yanek's mother and Oskar's wife?
(a) Martha.
(b) Mina.
(c) Lena.
(d) Sala.

2. When another train passes the train on which Yanek is riding in Chapter 15, Yanek discovers that his train is heading toward which concentration camp?
(a) Birkenau.
(b) Bergen-Belsen.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Auschwitz.

3. How much money does Yanek find during his work detail in the abandoned ghetto of Krakow?
(a) 2,000 zloty.
(b) 500 zloty.
(c) 5,000 zloty.
(d) 3,000 zloty.

4. Which literary technique does Gratz use when he chooses the member of Yanek's family who will appear again at Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Irony.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Hyperbole.

5. The "Sachsenhausen salute" involves torturing a prisoner by forcing him to remain in what type of position for hours at a time without moving?
(a) A standing position.
(b) A squatting position.
(c) A kneeling position.
(d) A seated position.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season of the year are Yanek and the other prisoners at Auschwitz moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?

2. At the start of Chapter 19, Yanek states that when he gets to Auschwitz, he is how old?

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

4. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?

5. Which building in the now-abandoned ghetto of Krakow is Yanek assigned to clean after being taken there to work?

(see the answer key)

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