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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Jewish men are required to form a minyan?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

2. Upon arriving at the Trzebinia concentration camp, Yanek vows that he will not be killed without first taking what action?
(a) Saying goodbye to his bunkmates.
(b) Fighting back.
(c) Murdering at least one Nazi.
(d) Saying a prayer of remembrance for his family.

3. Once Yanek realizes that his parents have been captured by the Nazis, his pain soon turns to "a stirring of" (61) which emotion?
(a) Determination.
(b) Self-preservation.
(c) Rage.
(d) Hatred.

4. About how many people are imprisoned within the Auschwitz concentration camp at the time Yanek and the others are moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 5,000.

5. With what object is the man beaten to death after it is determined that his name is not really Finkelstein?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A rock.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A brick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?

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

3. In Chapter 17, after Yanek verbally surrenders to death inside the gas chamber, what substance comes out of the showerhead instead of gas?

4. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?

5. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?

(see the answer key)

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