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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. One day when Yanek returns to the Plaszow labor camp, he is told that which member of his family is dead?
(a) Mina.
(b) Oskar.
(c) Sala.
(d) Uncle Moshe.
2. Who is Oskar?
(a) Yanek's father.
(b) Yanek's cousin.
(c) Yanek's uncle.
(d) Yanek's grandfather.
3. What object does Yanek's family use to cover the small window in the pigeon coop?
(a) A sheet.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A blanket.
4. At the end of Chapter 3, what action does Yanek take for the first time?
(a) He doubts his father's word.
(b) He curses.
(c) He lies.
(d) He doubts his uncle's word.
5. Which member of Yanek's family owns a bakery?
(a) Sala.
(b) Mina.
(c) Oskar.
(d) Uncle Abraham.
6. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Crying children.
(c) Gunshots.
(d) The rattling of the rooftop door.
7. Yanek states that anyone caught trying to escape from the ghetto received what punishment?
(a) They were shot on sight.
(b) They were taken to a death camp.
(c) They were taken to a work camp.
(d) They were hung.
8. Who is Amon Goeth?
(a) An executioner.
(b) The commandant of the labor camp.
(c) The Nazi Party Secretary.
(d) A member of the SS.
9. Uncle Moshe tells the rest of the family that Hitler had said that "The Jews" in Europe must" (2) take what action?
(a) Submit.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Die.
(d) Surrender.
10. The Nazis guarding Yanek and the others with him as they are removed from the Krakow ghetto are armed with which kind of weapons?
(a) Machetes.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Bayonets.
(d) Pistols.
11. Yanek states that "Amon Goeth wouldn't have" which meal "each day until he'd killed at least one Jew" (72)?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Lunch.
(c) Supper.
(d) Dinner.
12. Across the street from Yanek's family's apartment building lies what kind of temporary institution?
(a) A census office.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A school.
(d) A post office.
13. When the Nazis come to Krakow and empty its hospitals, what do they do with the patients?
(a) They shoot them in the street.
(b) They send them back to their families.
(c) They send them to concentration camps.
(d) They move them to a different hospital.
14. The Nazis make it a rule in Yanek's neighborhood in 1941 that how many families must live within each apartment?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.
15. Which group of Yanek's family members argues with Oskar about his estimate of the war's length?
(a) Yanek's cousins.
(b) Yanek's grandparents.
(c) Yanek's brothers.
(d) Yanek's uncles.
Short Answer Questions
1. Once Yanek realizes that his parents have been captured by the Nazis, his pain soon turns to "a stirring of" (61) which emotion?
2. Which member of Yanek's family is he overjoyed to locate within the Plaszow labor camp?
3. Which member of Yanek's family is NOT captured by the Nazis while waiting in line to buy bread?
4. What breed of dog is used by the Nazis in charge of the Plaszow labor camp?
5. What happens to the man who runs into the street in an attempt to save the synagogue from damage in Chapter 2?
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