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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 6 or 7.
(c) 9 or 10.
(d) 12 or 13.

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

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

4. What is NOT something Yanek associates with his formerly safe and happy self?
(a) Science.
(b) Bicycle rides.
(c) American movies.
(d) Books.

5. What food item do the Nazis provide to each prisoner that they say must last for the entirety of the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?
(a) One biscuit.
(b) Half a loaf of bread.
(c) A packet of gruel.
(d) One loaf of bread.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Yanek makes his way to the front of the line to see Dr. Mengle at Auschwitz, how old does he claim to be?

3. Whose advice is Yanek ignoring when he forms a close friendship with Fred?

4. The young Polish boy in Chapter 15 shouts at the passing train passengers that they will soon be turned into what substance?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what purpose do the Nazis use cattle cars and in what way is their use symbolic?

2. What small moment of triumph does Yanek experience during the transition from Auschwitz to another concentration camp?

3. What is the source of the strange sound Yanek hears during his first night at Auschwitz?

4. To what location is Yanek sent after he is removed from the Plaszow concentration camp?

5. How does Yanek find out that the train's destination is Birkenau before the train arrives there?

6. How does the theme of altruism arise within the journey from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen?

7. What scent does Yanek detect in the air when he is brought to the Birkenau death camp?

8. What ominous warning does an SS guard give to Yanek as he enters Auschwitz?

9. Which qualities of new prisoners help Yanek to qualify certain individuals as such?

10. What happens to Fred when he is unable to work?

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