Describe Yanek’s introduction to Commandant Amon Goeth after arriving at the concentration camp.
Question 32
32.
Why did Yanek think Trzebinia was worse than Wieliczka (the salt mines)?
Question 33
33.
Describe the conditions of the cattle car that Yanek and the prisoners travel in. Why would the Nazis transport the Jewish prisoners using this method?
Question 34
34.
Describe how Birkenau is different than the other concentration camps that Yanek has been at.
After the raid occurs in Yanek's apartment building, what do the people begin to do with the Immerglick's belongings?
A) They begin to take out their possessions to the garbage
B) They start to take their possessions as their own
C) They begin to make a pile of them outside to burn
D) They begin to sell them for extra money
What did the Nazis do to the people who were sick and in the hospital?
A) They began to nurse them back to health
B) They took them out of the hospital and began shooting them
C) The Nazis loaded them into cattle cars
D) They marched them out of the gh
In Chapter 8, where was Yanek able to get a job in the ghetto?
A) In a lumber yard
B) A tailor shop
C) The bakery
D) At his father's shoe store
Who did Yanek think that he saw in the line of Jews being led to be deported by the Nazis?
A) His Uncle Moshe
B) His mom and dad
C) His Uncle Abraham
D) His former Science teacher
After arriving at the concentration camp in Chapter 9, who does Yanek recognize?
A) His friend Thomas
B) His Uncle Abraham
C) His Uncle Moshe
D) His father
What happened on the day that Yanek decided to stop by a friend’s apartment on the way home from work detail?
A) He was spotting sneaking around by the Nazis
B) Another deportation took his parents away from the ghetto
C) His Uncle Moshe yelled at him for his carelessness
D) He got an extra ration from a generous neighbo
What was Amon Goeth’s tradition before he had breakfast each day?
A) To wake up all the Jews by splashing cold water on them in their barracks
B) To interrogate all the Jewish men to look for valuables
C) To kill at least one Jew at random
D) To make sure not a single Jew had escaped in the night
What advice did Uncle Moshe give to Yanek to help him survive in the concentration camp?
A) Pretend that he was an important person in his past so he would get special treatment
B) Pretend that he was a nobody and do whatever it took to prevent standing out
C) Act like a child because children were treated better
D) Stick close to his side because he could protect him
What did the score “Goeth seven, Jews nil” mean?
A) The city of Goeth had destroyed seven more Jewish towns
B) Commandant Goeth had killed seven Jews that month
C) Commandant Goeth had killed seven Jews that week
D) Commandant Goeth had killed seven Jews that day
What did Uncle Moshe do with the money Yanek gave him?
A) He told Yanek to hide it under the floorboards in his barrack
B) He gave it to an old Jewish banker to save for him
C) He spent it all at one time to buy them rations to last them through the month
D) He hid it away in a place that only he knew
According to Yanek, what is a Muselmann?
A) A Nazi with a lot of muscle built up from years of brutality
B) A Jewish rabbi with a lot of wisdom
C) A man who is very thin without emotion in his eyes - similar to a zombie
D) A Muslim who had converted to Judaism to avoid being forced to join the Nazis
Why did Uncle Moshe's death jeopardize the life of our narrator?
A) Moshe was the one who showed a sense of kindness and understanding to all the Jews in the camp
B) Moshe was the one with the plan to escape the labor camp
C) Moshe was the only friend of the family that was left after the deportations took place
D) Moshe was the only one who knew where the money was hidden
What did Yanek find as he struggled on the floor to try to get up to his bunk after a grueling day of laboring to dig trenches for latrines?
A) A loaf of bread
B) A loose floorboard
C) The money that Moshe hid away
D) An old prisoner shirt
In the following sentence, what is the most likely meaning of “labyrinth”?
“The elevator car hit bottom, and we were guided through a labyrinth of tunnels and small chambers.”
A) mazes
B) trenches
C) lakes
D) caves
Yanek and several other prisoners believe that a man that is with them in the salt mines looks familiar. Why did the familiar-looking man keep denying where he was from and what his name was?
A) He was pretending to be a Nazi and didn’t want to blow his cover
B) He had escaped from jail and he didn’t want to be arrested again as a fugitive
C) He had been a Judenrat who had helped the Nazis capture and steal from other Jews
D) He had been on the news as one of the main advocates for Hitler’s campaign
At Trzebinia, what was the task assigned to the Jews after they labored to move all the big rocks to the other side?
A) The prisoners were ordered to thow the rocks at each other and try to dodge the stones
B) The prisoners were ordered to move the rocks back to the opposite side of the camp
C) They were ordered to break the rocks up to turn them into gravel
D) They were to begin constructing a new building made from the stones
What happened to the Jew who had the same thought as Yanek did and grabbed the club away from the Nazi who was beating him?
A) The other Jews mocked him for trying to be a hero
B) Other Jews stood up with him against the soldiers
C) He was shot
D) He inspired Yanek to continue in this way of thinking
What else happened as a result of the man trying to stand up to the Nazi official?
A) The Nazi soldier died after the clubbing from the Jew
B) The Nazi soldiers began to fear the prisoners and what they were capable of doing
C) Yanek was punished because the Nazi officials knew he supported this act of defiance
D) The Nazis killed several other innocent Jews and accused them of planning to escape
What does Yanek do when the boy gets hung in front of everyone for his "role" in the uprising against the Nazi official?
A) Keeps his head held high and vows to never forget what has happened
B) Says he will avenge his death
C) Takes a rock to throw at a Nazi at the best possible moment
D) Keeps working and ignores what is happening around him
What does Yanek find in the ghetto when he goes back to help liquidate it?
A) He finds his Uncle Abraham hiding in the pigeon coop
B) Money that his mom sewed into the sleeves of their clothes
C) He sees kids that he went to school with playing in the street
D) He finds his mother's necklace
Why do Thomas, Isaac, and Yanek become fearful that they may die in the barracks?
A) Amon Goeth might see them and report them to a higher ranked official
B) Amon Goeth has his dogs with him - they may smell them and give them away
C) Yanek accidentally left one of his shoes on the barrack floor and Amon Goeth finds it
D) Isaac sneezes and gives away their position
Why would it be a bad idea for the prisoners to try to escape in the salt mine?
A) You would be lost in the dark with nothing to eat but salt and nothing to drink but salt water
B) The Nazi officials would send dogs to find you
C) You would be shot on sight for trying to escape
D) The mine contained many lakes that you could accidentally fall into and, since the mine was dark, you could drown
How does the Judenrat die?
A) Nazi officials shot him in the head
B) He was drowned in the underwater lake
C) He was hit in the face with a shovel and had salt put in his wounds
D) He kills himself because he felt guilty about what he did to the innocent Jewish people living in the ghetto
What does Yanek actually enjoy seeing in the salt mine?
A) The sculptures that are carved out of salt
B) Making his own pick ax marks on the wall
C) The lack of sunlight
D) Carting the salt away to the elevators
What does Yanek take away from the boy that was hung when he said, "Remember, I did nothing"?
A) Yanek plans to do nothing and begins to give up his hopes of survival
B) Yanek vows that he is going to create a plan to overthrow the Nazis
C) Yanek prays for the boy and begins to hang out with another boy around the same age as the one that was killed
D) Yanek realizes that even doing nothing wrong and following the rules could get you killed
What gift from “mother nature” helped Yanek while riding in the cattle car on the way to Birkenau?
A) Sunlight
B) Snow
C) Rain
D) Darkness
What are barracks?
A) Long pieces of equipment used to build houses
B) Buildings used to house animals
C) Long pieces of equipment used to block off the outside world
D) Buildings used to house a large group of people
The man on the cattle car gives Yanek some advice on what to do when they get to Birkenau. What does this man say?
A) Yanek should try to say that he is older than he is so he can get a job at the camp and not be sent to the gas chambers
B) Yanek should play dead when the train arrives at the camp
C) Yanek should try to escape with this man and a few other prisoners during the night
D) If Yanek stands right under the exhaust vents in the gas chambers, he will not suffer long before dying
Why can't the prisoners on the cattle car go immediately into Birkenau when the train arrives?
A) The commander of the camp must speak with the trainload of prisoners first before they are allowed to enter the camp
B) The barracks must be cleaned out for the new prisoners
C) Roll call must be completed first for the prisoners who are already in the camp
D) A man tells Yanek that the Nazis must finish off the last trainload of people before they have room for them to enter the gas chambers
What smell does Yanek recognize immediatley upon entering Birkenau?