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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what location does Yanek flee whenever the Rosenblum girls begin to argue too loudly in Yanek's family's apartment?
(a) The hallway.
(b) The rooftop.
(c) The pigeon coop.
(d) The attic.

3. The Nazis make it a rule in Yanek's neighborhood in 1941 that how many families must live within each apartment?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. Which past tense verb do the Nazis use when threatening to take action regarding the Jewish ghetto of Krakow?
(a) Incinerated.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) Liquidated.
(d) Razed.

5. One evening, the Nazis announce that if all Jewish people do not go home by what time of night, they will be shot once they are found?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does a young Jewish man prepare to have a bar mitzvah?

2. The Nazis guarding Yanek and the others with him as they are removed from the Krakow ghetto are armed with which kind of weapons?

3. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?

4. What is a "panzer," (7) according to Yanek?

5. Once Yanek realizes that his parents have been captured by the Nazis, his pain soon turns to "a stirring of" (61) which emotion?

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