View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Yanek is placed into a queue at the beginning of Chapter 17 and he hears screams up ahead, what happens when it is his turn?
(a) He is assigned a work detail.
(b) He has his head shaven.
(c) He gets tattooed.
(d) He is whipped.

2. The prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp who are forced to pull rocks behind them in carts are also forced to take what action at the same time?
(a) Crawl.
(b) Recite poetry.
(c) Cry.
(d) Sing.

3. What is NOT something Yanek associates with his formerly safe and happy self?
(a) Science.
(b) Books.
(c) Bicycle rides.
(d) American movies.

4. What food item do the Nazis provide to each prisoner that they say must last for the entirety of the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
(a) One loaf of bread.
(b) A packet of gruel.
(c) Half a loaf of bread.
(d) One biscuit.

5. When the Nazis come to Krakow and empty its hospitals, what do they do with the patients?
(a) They send them to concentration camps.
(b) They shoot them in the street.
(c) They move them to a different hospital.
(d) They send them back to their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the start of Chapter 18, Yanek vows to take which action every single morning from that point forward?

2. For whom had the zoo at Buchenwald been built, according to Yanek?

3. The term "Muselmann" (96) is used by prisoners to refer to a person with what condition?

4. Yanek entertains the family in Chapter 1 with the use of which object he had created himself?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 307 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample