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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of Yanek's family is he overjoyed to locate within the Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Sala.
(b) Uncle Moshe.
(c) Uncle Abraham.
(d) Mina.

2. What is Yanek's first sign that his parents may have been captured by the Nazis?
(a) Uncle Abraham says he had seen them being led away.
(b) He finds a note they had left for him.
(c) He believes he sees them being led away.
(d) He returns to the pigeon coop to find them missing.

3. To what location does Yanek flee whenever the Rosenblum girls begin to argue too loudly in Yanek's family's apartment?
(a) The rooftop.
(b) The attic.
(c) The pigeon coop.
(d) The hallway.

4. 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.

5. Yanek states that "Amon Goeth wouldn't have" which meal "each day until he'd killed at least one Jew" (72)?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Supper.
(c) Lunch.
(d) Breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "Sachsenhausen salute" involves torturing a prisoner by forcing him to remain in what type of position for hours at a time without moving?

2. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the new addition to camp that is officially called "new camp B III" (136)?

3. The radio tower Yanek sees as he and the other prisoners approach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is located in what city?

4. Which member of Yanek's family owns a bakery?

5. On what street do Yanek and his family live in an apartment at the time the narrative begins?

(see the answer key)

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