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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is Yanek moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1944.

2. Which nationality is not named in Yanek's portrait of the prisoners who begin singing Jewish songs in many different languages?
(a) Belgian.
(b) Italian.
(c) Czech.
(d) French.

3. When Yanek helps a fellow prisoner to continue on with the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, what body part of the prisoner's does Yanek prop up onto his own body?
(a) Elbow.
(b) Head.
(c) Shoulder.
(d) Back.

4. What is Yanek's first sign that Fred has contracted an illness?
(a) He is slower at chopping wood than he normally is.
(b) He cannot get out of bed.
(c) He vomits.
(d) He wakes up bathed in sweat.

5. Into which of Yanek's limbs do the Nazis at Birkenau tattoo Yanek's prisoner number, B-3087?
(a) His left arm.
(b) His right arm.
(c) The back of his neck.
(d) His left calf.

6. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Disinfectant.
(c) Urine.
(d) Excrement.

7. What name do the prisoners at Birkenau bestow upon the new addition to camp that is officially called "new camp B III" (136)?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Baja.

8. About how many people are imprisoned within the Auschwitz concentration camp at the time Yanek and the others are moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,500.

9. When another train passes the train on which Yanek is riding in Chapter 15, Yanek discovers that his train is heading toward which concentration camp?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Birkenau.

10. The man who claims to have the last name of Finkelstein turns out to have inhabited which position in the past?
(a) A kapo.
(b) An SS guard.
(c) A Judenrat police officer.
(d) A tailor.

11. When Yanek arrives at the Birkenau concentration camp, he cries for the first time since the occurrence of which event?
(a) The capture of his mother.
(b) The death of his former bunkmate.
(c) The death of his Uncle Moshe.
(d) The capture of his father.

12. Yanek's first assigned task after he is moved to the Trzebinia concentration camp is to move a pile of what objects from one site to another?
(a) Firewood.
(b) Bricks.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Shoes.

13. When new prisoners are brought to Auschwitz in Chapter 19, a long-time prisoner whispers to them that any children among them should claim to be what age?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

14. At the end of Chapter 19, Yanek thinks he may be losing his mind when he hears the sound of what?
(a) Ocean waves.
(b) Bombing.
(c) Singing.
(d) His mother's voice.

15. On the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, the first prisoners to die along the way according to Yanek are the prisoners without what?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What method of transportation do Yanek and the other prisoners use to reach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?

2. How old is the younger Polish boy on the train platform who shouts at the passing train passengers that they will be transformed into a particular substance?

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

4. How old is Yanek when he reaches the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after being moved from Auschwitz?

5. As Yanek consumes snow from the cattle car's ventilation grate, he has a moment of longing for which of his late family members?

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