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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 building in the now-abandoned ghetto of Krakow is Yanek assigned to clean after being taken there to work?
(a) His family's former apartment building.
(b) An art museum.
(c) A school.
(d) A hospital.

2. In the first sentence of the novel, Yanek declares that if he had known about the events to come in the next how many years, he "would have eaten more" (1) and not complained about his bedtime or chores?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

3. How many times per week do the Nazis conduct Resettlements in Yanek's city, as they are described in Chapter 6?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

4. What method do the Nazis use to transport Yanek and others when they are taken from the Krakow ghetto?
(a) Truck.
(b) Train.
(c) On foot.
(d) Caravan.

5. Yanek states that by the time the summer of what year arrives, he is the only member of his family who remains in the Krakow ghetto?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Yanek find during his work detail in the abandoned ghetto of Krakow?

2. How many members of Yanek's family are living within the rooftop pigeon coop at the start of Chapter 7?

3. How old is Yanek when his parents are captured and taken away by the Nazis?

4. Which literary technique does Gratz use when he chooses the member of Yanek's family who will appear again at Plaszow labor camp?

5. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?

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