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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) He has his head shaven.
(b) He is assigned a work detail.
(c) He gets tattooed.
(d) He is whipped.

2. What is a "panzer," (7) according to Yanek?
(a) A tank.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A gun.
(d) A wall.

3. Yanek states that anyone caught trying to escape from the ghetto received what punishment?
(a) They were taken to a death camp.
(b) They were shot on sight.
(c) They were hung.
(d) They were taken to a work camp.

4. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?
(a) A tailor shop.
(b) A shoemaker shop.
(c) A sundries shop.
(d) A butcher shop.

5. The director of the Judenrat informs the people of Krakow that he has been ordered by the Nazis to hand over how many thousands of Jewish people the following morning?
(a) 50.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is Oskar?

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. Including Yanek, how many prisoners are moved to the location that turns out to be a salt mine?

5. After standing in a minyan for a fellow prisoner's bar mitzvah, Yanek tells the young man that which fact is "all that matters" (134)?

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