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

2. With what type of weapon does the kapo hit both Fred and Yanek in Chapter 20?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A ladle.
(c) A club.
(d) A baseball bat.

3. With what object is the man beaten to death after it is determined that his name is not really Finkelstein?
(a) A rock.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A brick.
(d) A shovel.

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

5. When Yanek is placed into a queue at the beginning of Chapter 17 and he hears screams up ahead, what happens when it is his turn?
(a) He is whipped.
(b) He is assigned a work detail.
(c) He gets tattooed.
(d) He has his head shaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Yanek knows that he is still a young man when he arrives at Auschwitz, he declares that he appears to be a man of what age?

2. During the long train journey Yanek experiences in Chapter 15, he wakes up to discover that what event has taken place?

3. Of what type of material is the floor of Yanek's barrack at Birkenau made?

4. 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)?

5. What are the two different colors of stripes on the prisoners' uniforms at Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Which objects in the salt mine does Yanek consider aesthetically beautiful?

5. Whose advice must Yanek ignore in order to make friends with Fred?

6. What morning routine does Yanek develop during his time imprisoned in Birkenau and why does he consider the routine important?

7. For what reason does Fred become unable to work?

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

9. At what point do Yanek and the other new arrivals to the Birkenau death camp realize that they have been spared for the moment?

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

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