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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yanek tells the reader in Chapter 6 that he would trade "a week's worth of rations" (37) for one serving of which food prepared by his mother?
(a) Freshly baked bread.
(b) Tomato soup.
(c) Hand-churned butter.
(d) Blueberry pie.

2. One day when Yanek returns to the Plaszow labor camp, he is told that which member of his family is dead?
(a) Mina.
(b) Sala.
(c) Uncle Moshe.
(d) Oskar.

3. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?
(a) A shoemaker shop.
(b) A butcher shop.
(c) A tailor shop.
(d) A sundries shop.

4. On what street do Yanek and his family live in an apartment at the time the narrative begins?
(a) Grodzka Street.
(b) Jagiellonska Street.
(c) Krakusa Street.
(d) Florianska Street.

5. How old is the protagonist when the Germans invade his community?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yanek's first sign that his parents may have been captured by the Nazis?

2. The narrative of the novel starts at the beginning of what month?

3. Once a curfew was instituted in the ghetto, by what time of night were Jewish people required to be in their homes?

4. What happens to the man who runs into the street in an attempt to save the synagogue from damage in Chapter 2?

5. Oskar bases his estimate of the war's length on his faith in which country's impending resolve to enter the war?

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