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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Across the street from Yanek's family's apartment building lies what kind of temporary institution?
(a) A post office.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A school.
(d) A census office.

2. What does the German word "schnell" (64) mean when translated into English?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Evil.

3. 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.

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

5. Uncle Moshe tells the rest of the family that Hitler had said that "The Jews" in Europe must" (2) take what action?
(a) Die.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Submit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the legal first name of the novel's protagonist, though he goes by the name Yanek?

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

3. What is NOT one of Yanek's favorite topics to read books about?

4. Yanek states that anyone caught trying to escape from the ghetto received what punishment?

5. To what location does Yanek flee whenever the Rosenblum girls begin to argue too loudly in Yanek's family's apartment?

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