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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once a curfew was instituted in the ghetto, by what time of night were Jewish people required to be in their homes?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

2. When Yanek arrives at the Birkenau concentration camp, he cries for the first time since the occurrence of which event?
(a) The capture of his mother.
(b) The capture of his father.
(c) The death of his Uncle Moshe.
(d) The death of his former bunkmate.

3. 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) 1941.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1945.

4. What substance is found to have been placed within the wounds of the man claiming to have the last name of Finkelstein?
(a) Motor oil.
(b) Salve.
(c) Salt.
(d) Lemon juice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of Yanek's family members argues with Oskar about his estimate of the war's length?

2. What is the first boon Yanek receives as a result of finding money in Krakow?

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

4. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?

5. 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?

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