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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item does Yanek lose while providing assistance to another prisoner on the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
(a) A hunk of bread.
(b) A key.
(c) A Star of David armband.
(d) A wooden toy.

2. Once Yanek's first dawn arrives at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Yanek sees that the camp is littered with what?
(a) Nazi flags.
(b) Corpses.
(c) Personal effects of the dead.
(d) Shell casings.

3. 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) 5,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 3,000.

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 wakes up bathed in sweat.
(d) He vomits.

5. Yanek recalls being told by an SS guard upon his entry into Auschwitz that the only way to get out of the camp involved which object?
(a) A bullet.
(b) A chimney.
(c) A miracle.
(d) A noose.

6. What action does Yanek take as he eats Fred's bread on the evening immediately following Fred's murder?
(a) He says a kaddish.
(b) He whispers quietly to Fred's spirit.
(c) He closes his eyes.
(d) He folds his hands.

7. Yanek finds within his bunk at Birkenau a small toy resembling what creature?
(a) A frog.
(b) A horse.
(c) A dog.
(d) A rabbit.

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

9. The radio tower Yanek sees as he and the other prisoners approach the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is located in what city?
(a) Brussels.
(b) Paris.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Berlin.

10. In what year does Yanek arrive at the Sachsenhausen camp?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1943.

11. How many days are the prisoners into their journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen when Yanek begins to help a fellow prisoner keep going?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 9 or 10.
(c) 6 or 7.
(d) 12 or 13.

12. At the start of Chapter 18, Yanek vows to take which action every single morning from that point forward?
(a) Write a poem.
(b) Say a prayer.
(c) Scrub his body.
(d) Drink a cup of water.

13. Including Yanek, how many prisoners are moved to the location that turns out to be a salt mine?
(a) 20.
(b) 500.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

14. Once Yanek finds out where his train is headed in Chapter 15, a man nearby gives Yanek advice about what topic?
(a) Murder.
(b) The gas chambers.
(c) Religion.
(d) Grief.

15. 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)?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 18, Yanek has a dream that which person is chasing him?

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

3. How many Jewish men are required to form a minyan?

4. The term "Muselmann" (96) is used by prisoners to refer to a person with what condition?

5. 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?

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