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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which group of Yanek's family members argues with Oskar about his estimate of the war's length?
(a) Yanek's uncles.
(b) Yanek's brothers.
(c) Yanek's cousins.
(d) Yanek's grandparents.

2. The SS guards who tie an animal to a fence are punished by senior officers in what way?
(a) They are deprived of food for 3 days.
(b) They are prohibited from seeing movies in the camp movie theater for 3 months.
(c) They are not allowed to beat prisoners for 3 months.
(d) They are whipped with 30 lashes each.

3. Which member of Yanek's family is he overjoyed to locate within the Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Uncle Moshe.
(b) Uncle Abraham.
(c) Sala.
(d) Mina.

4. With what object do the SS officers tie an animal to a fence as Yanek looks on?
(a) A piece of twine.
(b) A belt.
(c) A hangman's noose.
(d) A leather strap.

5. What action does Yanek take as he eats Fred's bread on the evening immediately following Fred's murder?
(a) He closes his eyes.
(b) He whispers quietly to Fred's spirit.
(c) He folds his hands.
(d) He says a kaddish.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what street do Yanek and his family live in an apartment at the time the narrative begins?

2. What location does every prisoner at Auschwitz do their best to avoid?

3. When the prisoners at the Plaszow labor camp refer to Amon Goeth's "score," (71) to what are they referring?

4. What illness spreads rapidly through the Dachau concentration camp soon after Yanek's arrival?

5. On the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, the first prisoners to die along the way according to Yanek are the prisoners without what?

(see the answer key)

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