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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. Once Yanek's first dawn arrives at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Yanek sees that the camp is littered with what?
2. 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?
3. What is NOT a smell Yanek detects when he is placed into a cattle car at the beginning of Chapter 15?
4. What are the two different colors of stripes on the prisoners' uniforms at Auschwitz?
5. At the start of Chapter 19, Yanek states that when he gets to Auschwitz, he is how old?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whose advice must Yanek ignore in order to make friends with Fred?
2. For what purpose do the Nazis use cattle cars and in what way is their use symbolic?
3. At what point do Yanek and the other new arrivals to the Birkenau death camp realize that they have been spared for the moment?
4. What ominous warning does an SS guard give to Yanek as he enters Auschwitz?
5. Which qualities of new prisoners help Yanek to qualify certain individuals as such?
6. Which objects in the salt mine does Yanek consider aesthetically beautiful?
7. What distinction does Yanek make between the Trzebinia concentration camp and the other camps in which he has been imprisoned?
8. On which two occasions does Yanek vow to take every step he can "never to forget" (161) the atrocities committed during the Holocaust?
9. For what reason does Fred become unable to work?
10. Discuss an instance when Gratz uses a literary device to indicate the preciousness of food.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Prisoner B-3087 and analyze Gratz’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 2
What is the function of Oskar's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Gratz in depicting Oskar and include in your discussion the reasons that Gratz portrays Oskar in these particular ways.
Essay Topic 3
How is the topic of propaganda treated within Prisoner B-3087 and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
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