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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?
(a) Crying children.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) The rattling of the rooftop door.
(d) Screaming.

2. For what length of time is Yanek imprisoned at the Birkenau concentration camp before being moved to Auschwitz?
(a) Less than six months.
(b) Several years.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) A few months.

3. What is NOT a physical characteristic of the prisoner who steps in to help Yanek support the weight of his fellow prisoner on the trip from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
(a) He has a grizzled beard.
(b) He has deep cracks in his face.
(c) He has sunken and bloodshot eyes.
(d) He wears eyeglasses.

4. What object does Yanek's family use to cover the small window in the pigeon coop?
(a) A scarf.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A sheet.
(d) A blanket.

5. How many siblings does Yanek have in the narrative?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon arriving at the Trzebinia concentration camp, Yanek vows that he will not be killed without first taking what action?

2. Yanek spends which years inside the Plaszow concentration camp?

3. Yanek recalls being told by an SS guard upon his entry into Auschwitz that the only way to get out of the camp involved which object?

4. When Yanek arrives at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Chapter 24, it is his seventh concentration camp in "less than" how many "years" (196)?

5. What method do the Nazis use to transport Yanek and others when they are taken from the Krakow ghetto?

(see the answer key)

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