Prisoner B-3087: Chapters 15-17

What do the Polish boys do while the train is stopped?

• Talk with the Jews and try to be friends

• Throw snowballs and make fun of the Jews

• Tell the Jews they can't wait to be Nazis

• Try and save them from the train

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When the train stops the first time, what does Yanek notice?

• It is sunny outside and very hot

• He smells the dead man

• Polish families were living life like nothing was wrong

• He sees another Jew steal a loaf of bread

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

• The smell of fresh baked bread

• The screaming of Jewish people

• That no one is at the camp

• The smell of burning flesh

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

• To stand underneath the gas vents
• To be extra nice so Nazis won't call on him to do extra work
• To stand as far from the vents as possible
• To try and break free and escape

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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?

• The gas started pouring out

• The guards demanded they all get out

• Freezing water poured out of the shower heads

• Echoes could be heard throughout the building

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What does the B stand for in Prisoner B-3087?

• Beaten, which is what the Nazis did

• Belgium, which is the country he was in

• Birkenau, which is the concentration camp he was in

• Besi'tzen, which means owned and that is what he was

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Yanek get put on a train car made for livestock and has to stand next to -

• Isaac

• A Nazi Officer

• A dead man

• A little child

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What does Yanek wish while waiting in the gas chamber?

• That he died in the ghetto two years sooner

• That his parents were with him and there to comfort him

• That he tried to escape from the cattle car

• That he stood up for himself and fought for what he knew was right

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

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

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

• The Nazi soldiers inform the the prisoners when they first enter the train

• He realizes when they arrive at the camp where they're at

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According to the prisoner on Yanek's train that Yanek speaks to, what kind of camp is Birkenau?

• Work camp

• Death camp

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