WorksheetsPrisoner B-3087 Chapters 11-15
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 21mins
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When did Yanek find out that it wouldn't be good to run and why?
When he was on the train to Birkenau and the two small Polish boys began to taunt them saying things like, "They're going to turn you into soap, Jews!"
When he saw Amon Goeth was standing at the front gates because he was ruthless.
When he saw the dogs guarding the gates because they were trained to attack the Jews.
When he was captured by the Judenrat because they often told on fellow Jews.
Why were the passengers afraid of going to Birkenau?
They knew they would have to work hard.
They knew the camp was ran by Hitler.
They knew Birkenau was a death camp.
They knew that they would never see their families again.
