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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many members of Yanek's family are living within the rooftop pigeon coop at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

2. What method do the Nazis use to transport Yanek and others when they are taken from the Krakow ghetto?
(a) Truck.
(b) On foot.
(c) Train.
(d) Caravan.

3. What is the legal first name of the novel's protagonist, though he goes by the name Yanek?
(a) Jacques.
(b) Jedediah.
(c) Jakob.
(d) Hans.

4. Oskar tells the rest of the family that the war that would come to be called World War II would last how long?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 weeks.

5. What breed of dog is used by the Nazis in charge of the Plaszow labor camp?
(a) Rottweiler.
(b) Pit Bull.
(c) Doberman.
(d) German Shepherd.

6. 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) Machine guns.
(b) Machetes.
(c) Bayonets.
(d) Pistols.

7. 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?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1944.

8. How old is Yanek when his parents are captured and taken away by the Nazis?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

9. Yanek's prisoner uniform features stripes in which two colors?
(a) Gray and white.
(b) Black and white.
(c) Blue and gray.
(d) Blue and white.

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

11. One evening, the Nazis announce that if all Jewish people do not go home by what time of night, they will be shot once they are found?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

12. The Nazis make it a rule in Yanek's neighborhood in 1941 that how many families must live within each apartment?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

13. How many siblings does Yanek have in the narrative?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.

14. Which members of Yanek's family weep continually as they listen to the sound of shots outside the pigeon coop?
(a) His cousins.
(b) His aunts.
(c) His nieces.
(d) His parents.

15. 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 pigeon coop.
(c) The attic.
(d) The hallway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yanek's first sign that his parents may have been captured by the Nazis?

2. In the first sentence of the novel, Yanek declares that if he had known about the events to come in the next how many years, he "would have eaten more" (1) and not complained about his bedtime or chores?

3. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?

4. The narrative of the novel starts at the beginning of what month?

5. When Chapter 6 arrives, how old is Yanek?

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