Prisoner B-3087: Final Unit Test: 2022

Last updated almost 3 years ago

90 questions

Prisoner B-3087: Final Unit Test: 2022

Last updated almost 3 years ago

90 questions

At some of the concentration camps, the soldiers made the prisoners do different tasks for fun. What did the Nazis make Yanek and the other prisoners move back and forth back and forth at one of the camps?

A) Rocks

B) Bricks

C) Salt

D) Bodies 

In total, how many total concentration camps did Yanek survive?

A) 12

B) 8

C) 7

D) 10

What kind of films did Yanek say that he loved at the beginning of the novel?

A) Mystery

B) Westerns

C) Historical 

D) Horror

What does Yanek celebrate with his uncles and other men in an abandoned warehouse?

A) An anniversary party with a lot of food 

B) His Bar Mitzvah 

C) His 11th birthday 

D) One of the men's religious ceremonies 

What did the Nazis burn when the war was just getting started?

A) Yanek's apartment 

B) The pigeon coop 

C) Synagogue

D) The government building 

Where did Yanek and his dad sneak off to after curfew (the first time that Yanek snuck out of his apartment)?

A) They went to another family's apartment down the street

B) The synagogue

C) Uncle Abraham's bakery 

D) The grocery store 

What are prisoners called when there is no life in their expression, no spark of a soul in their eyes, and they have been worked and starved into a living death?

A) Ghosts 

B) Judenrats

C) Muselmann

D) Geists 

Where did the main character live before the war and before being deported to a concentration camp?

A) Poland 

B) Germany 

C) Soviet Union 

D) France

What group of people was responsible for liberating Dachau?

A) British 

B) Russians

C) Americans

D) Germans

What does Yanek ask Moonface for when they are on the Death March?

A) Water

B) Bread

C) Soup 

D) A new pair of wooden shoes 

Who is the family member that Yanek gets to be with for a short time in a concentration camp?

A) Uncle Moshe 

B) Uncle Abraham 

C) His cousin Sala 

D) His father 

After the Nazis raid their apartment, Yanek's mom becomes worried. How does she hide their valuables?

A) She sewed them into their coats

B) She sewed them into the mattresses

C) She hid them in a secret cabinet 

D) She hid them underneath the floorboards 

What was the purpose of the Death Marches?

A) Jews were to provide entertainment for the Nazis 

B) The Death Marches were how the Jews were transported from camp to camp 

C) The Jews were marched to their deaths, as they all were eventually shot and killed along the march

D) The Jews were walked around so other people could make fun of them 

Where do Yanek and his parents live until they are eventually taken away?

A) Uncle Abraham's bakery 

B) The apartment across the hall from their old one 

C) Their apartment 

D) The pigeon coop on the roof 

What did Amon Goeth do each morning before starting the day?

A) He had a mandatory meeting with other Nazi officials 

B) Killed at least one Jewish prisoner before breakfast 

C) Sent at least a dozen Jews to the gas chamber

D) Work with Dr. Mengele separating the new prisoners into groups 

Where does Yanek hide with two other boys (Thomas and Isaac) during work time for two weeks?

A) In the fields surrounding the camp 

B) Underneath the floorboards

C) In the gas chambers 

D) In a deep hole that the boys dug during work duty 

On the death march between the Gross-Rosen Concentration camp and Dachau Concentration camp, the group went through part of Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). What was different about this country?

A) There were no Nazi flags displayed

B) People left bread and other food out for the prisoners

C) The prison guards were on edge

D) The Czechs allowed the prisoners to sleep in their barns 

Why does Yanek receive his punishment of lashes?

A) He fell down during work duty 

B) He stole bread from another prisoner 

C) He lost a button on his shirt 

D) He talked back to his Kapo 

When the Nazis first took over Poland, they established the following rules for Jews EXCEPT:

A) Uncle Abraham's bakery was to be closed/shut down 

B) Jewish children were not allowed to attend school 

C) Jews were not allowed to visit public parks or movie theatres 

D) Jews had a curfew of 9pm 

After the first year of the Nazi occupation of Krakow, why does Yanek begin to doubt his father’s views?

A) Yanek turns 13 and has his Bar Mitzvah, which allows him to form his own opinions about the war and what is happening 

B) His father's predictions have not come true 

C) His father loses his job

D) Several families move into Yanek's family's flat, forcing them to give up some of their personal space and belongings 

What evidence from the text could help to explain why the Immerglick family was taken by the Nazis on the first raid, but Yanek's family was not?

A) Yanek's father worked in the bakery 

B) Yanek had a good job in the tailor shop 

C) Yanek's mother was obedient when the Nazis came to raid their apartment 

D) Yanek's family gave their valuables to the Nazis 

What was so important about Yanek turning 13 that his father disobeyed curfew?

A) They were going to bake bread to give to the Nazis in exchange for the Nazis protection 

B) They were going to meet with the Judenrat to talk about the Resettlement 

C) Yanek was to have his Bar Mitzvah and would be considered a man

D) They hear rumors about concentration camps and wanted to talk about the rumors with their other family members 

After Yanek’s parents are taken, what is Yanek determined to do?

A) Look for this parents wherever he goes 

B) Survive

C) Turn himself in to the Nazis 

D) Continue to bake bread to honor his family 

After the tailor shop in Plaszow closes, how does Yanek get a job outside of the camp?

A) He lies and says that he is a bricklayer 

B) He bribes a guard with money he finds in a pocket

C) Uncle Moshe traded a Kapo his daily rations to get Yanek a job outside of the camp 

D) Yanek appears stronger than the other men, so the Nazis give him a job that is more laborious

How does Yanek fail to follow Uncle Moshe’s advice while in Plaszow?

A) He gives his bread to the Muselmann

B) He volunteers to work outside the camp

C) He tells Thomas and Isaac about the loose board in the barracks where they can hide from work 

D) He speaks to Amon Goeth

What happens in the Wieliczka Salt mine?

A) Yanek is chosen for the most difficult jobs because he is stronger than the other prisoners 

B) Yanek and the other prisoners discover that the Judenrat has been murdered and salt was poured into his wounds 

C) Yanek witnesses a prisoner willingly go off into a dark cave of the mine 

The German words on the front gates of Auschwitz Concentration camp ARBEIT MACHT FREI translates WORK MAKE YOU FREE.

A) True

B) False

Yanek tells Doctor Mengele that he is a 16-year-old student.

A) True 

B) False

What does Yanek do before arriving at Dachau in order to try to pass as a Polish prisoner?

A) He claims to be 18 and have a trade

B) He removes his yellow Star of David and rubs dirt on his uniform

C) He covers his tattoo with dirt

D) He trades hats with a Polish prisoner 

After a night of bombing near the Dachau Concentration camp by the Allied soldiers, what was different when Yanek woke up in the morning?

A) All of the animals in the zoo had been set free 

B) Music was playing over the speakers throughout the camp 

C) The barrack door was locked 

D) The guards were gone

What gifts did Yanek receive from the Allied soldiers?

A) A bed with bedding 

B) A toothbrush 

C) A washcloth 

D) All of the above choices are correct 

Where did Yanek find the snow he needed to quench his thirst while on the train?

A) A ventilation grate

B) A tree branch 

C) A dead body 

D) An old boot 

An SS guard says that prisoners come in through the front gate of Auschwitz, but the only way out is through what?

A) The back gate 

B) The side gate 

C) The chimney 

D) The basement 

What kind of song do women sing when mothers and children are taken to the gas chambers?

A) A lullaby 

B) A worship song 

C) A German song 

D) A Polish song 

What sound was a signal to prisoners that they were walking too slow and falling too far behind during the Death March?

A) A car horn 

B) Truck tires screeching 

C) The crack of a whip 

D) The crack of a gunshot 

What language was Yanek told to count in when he was beaten with twenty lashes?

A) Polish 

B) Hebrew

C) German 

D) English

This is the money/currency used in Poland:

A) Pound 

B) Zloty

C) Dollar 

D) Euro

How many Jews did the Germans want to take from their ghetto as a part of the Resettlement?

A) 5,000

B) 7,000

C) 8,000

D) 9,000

What does Yanek do to entertain his family at the beginning of the novel?

A) Sing them songs on the karaoke machine

B) Act out Western movies in the light of his projector

C) Read them books about John Wayne

D) Pretends he is a radio announcer updating the news

What did Yanek's dad mean when he said, "Let them take everything. They cannot take who we are"?

A) Even if the Nazis took every material object, the Jews would still have their faith

B) The Nazis might take their stuff, but they can't take their names

C) Even if Jews took all their belongings when they ran away, they would live in fear

D) The Jews might lose their rights, but not their family inheritance

What were the people doing with the Immerglick's belongings after their apartment was raided by the Nazis?

A) Throwing them out

B) Taking them as their own 

C) Burning them for warmth 

D) Selling them to make a profit 

What literary element is "Life is but a river"?

A) Personification 

B) Metaphor 

C) Simile 

D) Oxymoron 

What did the Nazis do to the people in the hospital when they were trying to liquidate Yanek's ghetto?

A) They nursed them back to health 

B) They took them out of the hospital and shot them on the street

C) They rounded them up and put them into cattle cars 

D) They marched them away to a death camp 

Who did Yanek think that he saw in the line of Jews being led by Nazis?

A) Uncle Moshe 

B) The teachers at his school 

C) His mom and dad

D) His cousin Sala 

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) Stick close to his side because he could protect him

C) Act like a child because children were treated better

D) Pretend that he was a nobody and do whatever it took to prevent standing out

What did Uncle Moshe do with the money Yanek gave him?

A) Put it in a place no one would find

B) Gave it to an old Jewish banker to save for him

C) Told Yanek to keep it under the floorboards

D) Spent it on rations to last them through the war

Why did the familiar-looking man in the salt mine 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

What does Yanek find in the ghetto when he goes back to help liquidate it?

A) Money that his mom sewed into the sleeves of their clothes

B) He finds his Uncle Abraham

C) He sees kids playing in the street

D) He finds his mother's diamond necklace 

Why do Thomas, Isaac, and Yanek become fearful that they may die in the barracks?

A) Amon Goeth might see them

B) Amon Goeth brings his dogs that may smell them

C) Isaac sneezes and gives away their position

D) Yanek loses his shoe and Amon Goeth finds it outside of the barrack 

What does Yanek take away from the boy that was hung when he said, "Remember, I did nothing"?

A) Yanek plans to do nothing; he is just focused on himself and his own survival 

B) Yanek realizes that even doing nothing could get you killed

C) Yanek decides that he is going to pray for the soul of the boy every night for a week 

D) Yanek makes a plan to fight off the Nazis by himself

What does Yanek notice when they stop the train in Birkenau?

A) The screaming of Jewish people

B) Music played by the Gypsy prisoners 

C) He discovers that there are no other prisoners at the camp 

D) He smells burning flesh from the chimneys 

What is the advice a man on the cattle car gives Yanek about the Death Camp?

A) To stand as far from the vents as possible in order to stay alive longer 

B) To stand directly underneath the gas vents so that he will die quicker 

C) To try and make a run for it when the train stops at the camp 

D) To refuse to get off of the cattle car 

When Yanek finally let his hysteria overtake him, he shouted at the shower heads in the gas chamber. As soon as he did, what happened?

A) The gas began to pour out of the showerhead

B) The guards opened the door and demanded that all of the prisoners get out of the chamber 

C) Freezing water poured out of the shower heads

D) Echoes and screams of other prisoners could be heard throughout the building

In Chapter 15, how is Yanek able to figure out what the next camp the prisoners are being transported to is?

A) He talks with another prisoner in a different cattle car and that prisoner tells him

B) He hears rumors from other prisoners on the same train as him

C) The Nazi soldiers inform the the prisoners when they first enter the train

D) He realizes when they arrive at the camp where they're at

When the train arrives at Birkenau, why do the prisoners on the train have to wait on the train so long before entering the camp?

A) They have to wait for the commander of the camp to escort them

B) They are being fed and must finish eating

C) They have to wait until the last trainload of people are done in the gas chambers

D) They have to wait for specific instructions from a Nazi official before entering the camp

As Yanek is getting ready to enter the gas chambers, he sees clothes left behind from the people that were in the chambers before him. What group of people were in the chambers previously?

A) Prisoners of war 

B) Poles

C) Gypsies 

D) Military prisoners 

What happens to the prisoners after they survive the shower in the gas chamber?

A) They immediately head outside to start working

B) They get their heads shaved and are tattooed with prison numbers

C) They are assigned specific jobs within the camp

D) The commander of the camp speaks with the group of prisoners

Although Yanek is tattooed and will now be seen as just a prisoner with a number, not Yanek, what mindset does he have?

A) He just has to keep moving forward

B) At least he can keep working in the camp

C) He must stay alive to protect the people in his barrack

D) At least he is still alive 

What does Yanek find in the scrap of cloth left behind by one of the Gypsies?

A) A wooden horse 

B) A picture of a family 

C) A small journal 

D) A toy elephant 

In Chapter 21, why do the prisoners begin getting transported by marching by foot rather than in train cars?

A) The trains broke down and couldn't be used until they were repaired 

B) The Nazis thought it would be a fun journey to have the prisoners walk

C) The trains were needed for the war

D) The train cars needed to be cleaned after the last set of transports

Why did Yanek scrub his body in the cold water and rub his teeth with his wet fingers each morning?

A) He wanted to escape a clean man

B) He didn’t want to get lice at Birkenau

C) He wanted to avoid the Typhus outbreak at the camp 

D) He felt it was important to remember what it was like to be human

What was Yanek’s trick to get a heartier dinner and avoid becoming a Muselmann?

A) Get to the front of the line while the soup was hot

B) Save a little of his bread each night to eat in the morning

C) Get to the back of the line to get the potatoes that fell to the bottom of the soup

D) Make friends with the cook who was quite generous when you made him laugh

Yanek tries to save a young boys life and the boy's family when he tells them -

A) to stand underneath the vents when the gas comes on

B) to lie about the boy's age and say he's 18

C) to tell the Nazis only the truth because the truth will set you free 

D) to do anything the SS Officer says without question 

When the new prisoners arrive to Auschwitz what does Yanek notice about them?

A) They are hard workers

B) They hate the old prisoners

C) They don't trust the Nazis or believe what they're saying 

D) They don't fully understand what is about to happen to them

What words did Yanek share during the Bar Mitzvah event that he remembered from his father and his uncle?

A) “We are a river and we must stay afloat.”

B) “Life is full of second chances if only we will fight.”

C) “We cannot let them tear us from the pages of the world.”

D) “The only way to survive is to pretend that you are no one and you know no one.”

After the American soldier's freed Yanek and the others, what does he realize?

A) The American soldiers killed all of the Nazis

B) He was alone in the world

C) Uncle Moshe was still alive

D) He didn't have any food to eat

At Sachsenhausen what do the guards make the prisoners do to see who is strong enough to be transferred?

A) Chop wood in order to feed the chimneys

B) Race other prisoners through the barrack

C) Run into the woods and have the dogs hunt them

D) None of the above choices are correct 

How did Moonface get his name?

A) He has pits on his face and acne

B) His face is almost perfectly round

C) He has a mustache that looks like a half moon

D) He is overweight, giving him a round appearance 

What disease spread through Dachau, killing many prisoners?

A) Small Pox 

B) Flu 

C) Typhus 

D) Tuberculosis 

What did Yanek change his name to at the end of the story?

A) Jack 

B) James 

C) John 

D) Jude 

Name that character:

A friend the main character made in the camp. He unfortunately gets sick and is unable to get out of bed and work, so he is drug out of bed after being beaten and is hung.

Name that character:

An old neighbor of the main character who later provides him with an address of his cousin.

Name that character:

The main character’s father. He dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.

Name that character:

The main character’s uncle. He dies after not supplying a Nazi with a “satisfactory” answer.

Name that character:

The main character’s mother. She dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.

Match the Quote with the Character

“Bars.” ... “Can you put bars...on the door?”

Match the Quote with the Character

“Sometimes I wish the Allies would drop bombs on us. Blow this place to bits, and all the Nazis and kapos with it. And me too.”

Match the Quote with the Character

“Go on! Go on, do it! I dare you! What are you waiting for? Kill me! I give up! You win!”

Match the Quote with the Character

“From now on, you have no name, no personality, no family, no friends. Do you understand? Nothing to identify you, nothing to care about. Not if you want to survive.”

Match the Quote with the Character

“You are a man now, with all the duties of an adult under Jewish law. You are now responsible for your own sins, but also for your own goodness. Remember what the Talmud teaches: Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it—how we treat our fellow man.”

Prisoner B-3087: Final Unit Test: 2022

Prisoner B-3087: Final Unit Test: 2022

At some of the concentration camps, the soldiers made the prisoners do different tasks for fun. What did the Nazis make Yanek and the other prisoners move back and forth back and forth at one of the camps?

In total, how many total concentration camps did Yanek survive?

What kind of films did Yanek say that he loved at the beginning of the novel?

What does Yanek celebrate with his uncles and other men in an abandoned warehouse?

What did the Nazis burn when the war was just getting started?

Where did Yanek and his dad sneak off to after curfew (the first time that Yanek snuck out of his apartment)?

What are prisoners called when there is no life in their expression, no spark of a soul in their eyes, and they have been worked and starved into a living death?

Where did the main character live before the war and before being deported to a concentration camp?

What group of people was responsible for liberating Dachau?

What does Yanek ask Moonface for when they are on the Death March?

Who is the family member that Yanek gets to be with for a short time in a concentration camp?

After the Nazis raid their apartment, Yanek's mom becomes worried. How does she hide their valuables?

What was the purpose of the Death Marches?

Where do Yanek and his parents live until they are eventually taken away?

What did Amon Goeth do each morning before starting the day?

Where does Yanek hide with two other boys (Thomas and Isaac) during work time for two weeks?

On the death march between the Gross-Rosen Concentration camp and Dachau Concentration camp, the group went through part of Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). What was different about this country?

Why does Yanek receive his punishment of lashes?

When the Nazis first took over Poland, they established the following rules for Jews EXCEPT:

After the first year of the Nazi occupation of Krakow, why does Yanek begin to doubt his father’s views?

What evidence from the text could help to explain why the Immerglick family was taken by the Nazis on the first raid, but Yanek's family was not?

What was so important about Yanek turning 13 that his father disobeyed curfew?

After Yanek’s parents are taken, what is Yanek determined to do?

After the tailor shop in Plaszow closes, how does Yanek get a job outside of the camp?

How does Yanek fail to follow Uncle Moshe’s advice while in Plaszow?

What happens in the Wieliczka Salt mine?

The German words on the front gates of Auschwitz Concentration camp ARBEIT MACHT FREI translates WORK MAKE YOU FREE.

Yanek tells Doctor Mengele that he is a 16-year-old student.

What does Yanek do before arriving at Dachau in order to try to pass as a Polish prisoner?

After a night of bombing near the Dachau Concentration camp by the Allied soldiers, what was different when Yanek woke up in the morning?

What gifts did Yanek receive from the Allied soldiers?

Where did Yanek find the snow he needed to quench his thirst while on the train?

An SS guard says that prisoners come in through the front gate of Auschwitz, but the only way out is through what?

What kind of song do women sing when mothers and children are taken to the gas chambers?

What sound was a signal to prisoners that they were walking too slow and falling too far behind during the Death March?

What language was Yanek told to count in when he was beaten with twenty lashes?

This is the money/currency used in Poland:

How many Jews did the Germans want to take from their ghetto as a part of the Resettlement?

What does Yanek do to entertain his family at the beginning of the novel?

What did Yanek's dad mean when he said, "Let them take everything. They cannot take who we are"?

What were the people doing with the Immerglick's belongings after their apartment was raided by the Nazis?

What literary element is "Life is but a river"?

What did the Nazis do to the people in the hospital when they were trying to liquidate Yanek's ghetto?

Who did Yanek think that he saw in the line of Jews being led by Nazis?

What advice did Uncle Moshe give to Yanek to help him survive in the concentration camp?

What did Uncle Moshe do with the money Yanek gave him?

Why did the familiar-looking man in the salt mine keep denying where he was from and what his name was?

What does Yanek find in the ghetto when he goes back to help liquidate it?

Why do Thomas, Isaac, and Yanek become fearful that they may die in the barracks?

What does Yanek take away from the boy that was hung when he said, "Remember, I did nothing"?

What does Yanek notice when they stop the train in Birkenau?

What is the advice a man on the cattle car gives Yanek about the Death Camp?

When Yanek finally let his hysteria overtake him, he shouted at the shower heads in the gas chamber. As soon as he did, what happened?

In Chapter 15, how is Yanek able to figure out what the next camp the prisoners are being transported to is?

When the train arrives at Birkenau, why do the prisoners on the train have to wait on the train so long before entering the camp?

As Yanek is getting ready to enter the gas chambers, he sees clothes left behind from the people that were in the chambers before him. What group of people were in the chambers previously?

What happens to the prisoners after they survive the shower in the gas chamber?

Although Yanek is tattooed and will now be seen as just a prisoner with a number, not Yanek, what mindset does he have?

What does Yanek find in the scrap of cloth left behind by one of the Gypsies?

In Chapter 21, why do the prisoners begin getting transported by marching by foot rather than in train cars?

Why did Yanek scrub his body in the cold water and rub his teeth with his wet fingers each morning?

What was Yanek’s trick to get a heartier dinner and avoid becoming a Muselmann?

Yanek tries to save a young boys life and the boy's family when he tells them -

When the new prisoners arrive to Auschwitz what does Yanek notice about them?

What words did Yanek share during the Bar Mitzvah event that he remembered from his father and his uncle?

After the American soldier's freed Yanek and the others, what does he realize?

At Sachsenhausen what do the guards make the prisoners do to see who is strong enough to be transferred?

How did Moonface get his name?

What disease spread through Dachau, killing many prisoners?

What did Yanek change his name to at the end of the story?

Name that character:A friend the main character made in the camp. He unfortunately gets sick and is unable to get out of bed and work, so he is drug out of bed after being beaten and is hung.

Name that character:An old neighbor of the main character who later provides him with an address of his cousin.

Name that character:The main character’s father. He dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.

Name that character:The main character’s uncle. He dies after not supplying a Nazi with a “satisfactory” answer.

Name that character:The main character’s mother. She dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.

Match the Quote with the Character “Bars.” ... “Can you put bars...on the door?”

Match the Quote with the Character“Sometimes I wish the Allies would drop bombs on us. Blow this place to bits, and all the Nazis and kapos with it. And me too.”

Match the Quote with the Character“Go on! Go on, do it! I dare you! What are you waiting for? Kill me! I give up! You win!”

Name that character:

A friend the main character made in the camp. He unfortunately gets sick and is unable to get out of bed and work, so he is drug out of bed after being beaten and is hung.

Name that character:

An old neighbor of the main character who later provides him with an address of his cousin.

Name that character:

The main character’s father. He dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.

Name that character:

The main character’s uncle. He dies after not supplying a Nazi with a “satisfactory” answer.

Name that character:

The main character’s mother. She dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.

Match the Quote with the Character

“Bars.” ... “Can you put bars...on the door?”

Match the Quote with the Character

“Sometimes I wish the Allies would drop bombs on us. Blow this place to bits, and all the Nazis and kapos with it. And me too.”

Match the Quote with the Character

“Go on! Go on, do it! I dare you! What are you waiting for? Kill me! I give up! You win!”

Match the Quote with the Character

“From now on, you have no name, no personality, no family, no friends. Do you understand? Nothing to identify you, nothing to care about. Not if you want to survive.”