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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?
(a) Sala and Dawid's son.
(b) Sala.
(c) Dawid.
(d) Sala and Dawid's daughter.

4. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?
(a) 1941-1945.
(b) 1940-1941.
(c) 1944-1945.
(d) 1942-1943.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Yanek tells the reader in Chapter 6 that he would trade "a week's worth of rations" (37) for one serving of which food prepared by his mother?

2. In what country does the narrative of Prisoner B-3087 open?

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

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

5. Which members of Yanek's family weep continually as they listen to the sound of shots outside the pigeon coop?

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