Prisoner B-3087 Reading Quiz 13-16

1. What are the following sentences referring to? “There were trolls and serpents and gnomes. There were knights and kings and queens.”

• The statues carved out of salt

• The images in Yanek's dreams

• Metaphors for the Nazi soldiers

• The dreams of the Jewish people

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

• He was pretending to be a Nazi and didn't want to blow his cover

• He had escaped from jail and he didn't want to be arrested again as a fugitive

• He had been a Judenrat who had helped the Nazis capture and steal from other Jews

• He had been on the news as one of the advocates for Hitler's campaign

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At Yanek’s new camp, what was the task assigned to the Jews after they labored to move all the big rocks to the other side?

• Throw them at each other

• Sleep there

• Move them back to where they had just brought them from

• Pick one to use as a pillow

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Why was Yanek angry with his fellow prisoners, even more so than the Nazis?

• Because they were even more cruel and contemptuous

• Because they stunk and were the lowest of the low

• Because they still had hope they would be set free

• Because they wouldn't fight and try to work together to overcome their captors

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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?

• He was shot before he had a chance to fight

• Other Jews stood up with him against the soldiers

• He inspired Yanek to continue his way of thinking

• The other Jews mocked him for trying to be a hero

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What else happened as a result of this uprising?

• The Nazi soldier died after the clubbing from the Jew

• The Nazi soldiers were afraid of the prisoners

• The Nazis killed several other innocent Jews and accused them of complicity

• Yanek was punished because they knew he supported this act

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Why did the Jews suffer silently?

• To suffer violently brought the death of others with you

• To suffer silently wasn't really that painful

• To suffer silently was to suffer peacefully

• Silence is golden

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What were the conditions like in the train that the prisoners were marched to after being told to stop working?

• It smelled like urine and vomit and excrement

• It was jammed so tight with people that it was hard to breathe

• It was filled with poisonous gas while it held the prisoners

• Only A and B are correct

• A, B, and C are correct

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Where did Yanek learn he was going?

• Back to Krakow

• To Munich

• To another labor camp

• To Birkenau, a death camp

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What did Yanek do once in the gas chamber?

• Sat and laughed at the wait

• Immediately went to the exhaust pipe, remembering the man's advice

• Stood with his arms around the last friend he had

• Sat and allowed the others to trample him as they moved about in fear

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