Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following best describes what is communicated by the narrator’s tone in Chapter 1?

A) Excitement

B) Abhorrence

C) Regret

D) Shame

2. During his time in the ghetto, Yanek shares the following reflection: “With each passing day I grew thinner and thinner, until hunger was my constant companion” (Chapter 6). Which of the following literary devices best labels Yanek use of figurative language in this quote?

A) Metaphor

B) Simile

C) Allusion

D) Irony

3. What does Yanek swear to himself?

A) That he will find his sister

B) That he will survive

C) That he will look for Uncle Moshe

D) That he will become a doctor in America

4. Which of the following words best describes Amon Goeth?

A) Dedicated

B) Empathetic

C) Milquetoast

D) Bloodthirsty

5. What does Yanek’s time in the Wieliczka salt mine remind him about life?

A) That there is still beauty in this world

B) That there is only sadness and despair in the future

C) That one must help others in order to survive

D) That all was lost in the concentration camps

6. The death of the former Judenrat policeman in Chapter 13 is an example of which of the following themes?

A) The persistence of memory

B) The desire for equality

C) The contentment of the Jewish life

D) The fear of the Nazi soldiers

7. Which of the following words best describes the mood of Yanek and his companions as they first enter the Birkenau showers in Chapter 16?

A) Relief

B) Shame

C) Apathy

D) Panic

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