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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Yanek tells the reader in Chapter 6 that he would trade "a week's worth of rations" (37) for one serving of which food prepared by his mother?
2. What sound causes Yanek's mother to nearly scream and give away the family's location in the pigeon coop?
3. By the time Yanek's parents are seized by the Nazis, Yanek has been assigned a work detail in what kind of shop?
4. How much money does Yanek find during his work detail in the abandoned ghetto of Krakow?
5. What sort of weather is occurring during the trip Yanek and Oskar make outside past curfew in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. After what event in the narrative does Yanek state, "If I had only known then what I know now, I would have run" (3)?
2. Who hides within the pigeon coop on the roof of Yanek's apartment building?
3. What is Uncle Moshe's ultimate fate and how does Yanek discover it?
4. What possible career path does Yanek imagine for himself within the opening chapters of the novel?
5. What terrible news does Uncle Moshe deliver to Yanek?
6. How is foreshadowing used within the opening passage of the novel?
7. How and why does Yanek lose trust in his father Oskar's word?
8. How does Gratz depict a change in Yanek that occurs after he has his bar mitzvah?
9. Who witnesses the capture of Yanek's parents?
10. In Chapter 8, Yanek and his father begin to leave the pigeon coop each day for what purpose?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Gratz’s messages about guilt and responsibility within Prisoner B-3087.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Gratz’s novel Prisoner B-3087. What message is Gratz sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
How does Gratz’s use of a first person narrator serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Gratz’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
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