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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first name of Commandant Koch's wife?
(a) Greta.
(b) Gretel.
(c) Ilse.
(d) Heidi.

2. The prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp who are forced to pull rocks behind them in carts are also forced to take what action at the same time?
(a) Crawl.
(b) Sing.
(c) Cry.
(d) Recite poetry.

3. As Yanek consumes snow from the cattle car's ventilation grate, he has a moment of longing for which of his late family members?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His cousin.

4. Which character is the first to greet Yanek and Oskar at the location to which they go after curfew?
(a) Mina.
(b) Uncle Abraham.
(c) Aunt Fela.
(d) Uncle Moshe.

5. 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 deep cracks in his face.
(b) He has sunken and bloodshot eyes.
(c) He wears eyeglasses.
(d) He has a grizzled beard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of Yanek's family feels most strongly that the family should remain in hiding within the pigeon coop?

2. At what age does a young Jewish man prepare to have a bar mitzvah?

3. When Yanek is caught having lost a certain object, to how many lashes with the whip is he sentenced?

4. What specific gift from the American soldiers does Yanek cry about when he holds it in his hands?

5. Yanek describes the different concentration camps in which he has been imprisoned as "different rooms" (212) in what location?

(see the answer key)

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