Prisoner B-3087 Chapters 11-15

Why did Uncle Moshe become so excited about the $2,000 zloty that Yanek found?

• He could use it to buy their freedom.

• He knew it could help him to find his wife and daughter.

• He could use it to buy food which would help them to survive.

• He needed it to pay off a debt.

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Who killed Uncle Moshe and why?

• Amon Goeth because Uncle Moshe was the leader of a rock breaking group, and Goeth didn't like the answer Moshe gave about the work they completed.

• Yanek because Uncle Moshe asked him to.

• Amon Goeth because he just felt like it.

• A Nazi guard because Uncle Moshe tried to escape.

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What happened when Yanek and his friends were hiding?

• One of the friends gave up their position.

• They heard Amon Goeth coming with his dogs, and they knew they had to get out.

• Another prisoner ratted them out for not being at work.

• Thomas refused to come out of hiding.

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Why did Yanek say that he felt all alone in the world again?

• He lost his friends.

• No one wanted to talk to him at Birkenau.

• He was Jewish, and he felt like the world was against him.

• Uncle Moshe died.

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Where did Yanek get sent in Chapter 13, and what was his job.

• He got sent to Germany to work at a bakery.

• He got sent to Poland to work in a tailor shop.

• He got sent to the Wieliczka Salt Mine to mine salt.

• He got sent to the kitchen at Plaszow to cook food.

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What happened to Holtzman in this section of chapters and why?

• The Jews killed him with a shovel and rubbed salt in his wounds because they found out he was a Judenrat.

• He was reunited with Yanek because he had a secret code to find him.

• He was forced to work as a guard at Plaszow because he was a Judenrat.

• He was taken as a prisoner because he refused to carry out his Judenrat duties.

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Why were the Jews and Yanek upset about their job at Trzebinia?

• They had to clean the restrooms at the camp.

• They had to move rocks back and forth for no reason.

• The guards were mean.

• They weren't allowed to talk to each other.

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Why did Yanek in Chapter 14 say that his father, Uncle Moshe, and everyone else was wrong?

• He felt like the Jews should be fighting back.

• He felt like the war was going to come to an end soon.

• They told him that everything was going to be alright.

• They told him that the Nazis were nice.

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What did Yanek learn about fighting back?

• It could earn him his freedom.

• It would give others the courage to do the same.

• It would help out his fellow Jews.

• To fight back was to bring pain and death to others.

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Why did Yanek feel like he was becoming a Muselmanner in Chapter 12?

• He started to enjoy his job.

• He had to go back to working hard at Plaszow, and without Moshe bringing him extra food, he started to lose his strength and become weak.

• All of the hard work he was doing helped him to start building muscles.

• He began to want to fight back against the Nazis.

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