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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age does a young Jewish man prepare to have a bar mitzvah?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

2. Yanek describes the different concentration camps in which he has been imprisoned as "different rooms" (212) in what location?
(a) Hell.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) A haunted house.
(d) Hades.

3. Oskar bases his estimate of the war's length on his faith in which country's impending resolve to enter the war?
(a) The United States.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) France.
(d) Poland.

4. What does the German word "schnell" (64) mean when translated into English?
(a) Evil.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Quickly.

5. What is the first boon Yanek receives as a result of finding money in Krakow?
(a) An egg.
(b) An orange.
(c) Half a loaf of bread.
(d) A stick of butter.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. When Yanek is moved to the Buchenwald concentration camp, from what concentration camp had he just come?

3. What item does Yanek lose while providing assistance to another prisoner on the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?

4. How many barrels for collecting human waste are allocated to 500 prisoners at Birkenau?

5. Which nationality is not named in Yanek's portrait of the prisoners who begin singing Jewish songs in many different languages?

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