EK WAS HIER CHAPTER SUMMARIES
PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ 26.
Answer: They continue marching, for half an hour, to another camp (they've
left Birkenau). The iron gate to this camp has an inscription: "work makes
you free." They are now in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
◍ 19.
Answer: The naked men are forced to run outside in the cold to a bath of
disinfectant, and then forced to run again to the storeroom to get striped
prisoner's clothes.
◍ Chapter 27.
Answer: Yanek was marching and went up to Moonface to ask for bread,
because he would have starved, and he actually gave it to him.
◍ 52.
Answer: Back in Buna in 1944, Idek goes crazy again and beats Eliezer's
dad this time. Eliezer reflects on how inhumane the concentration camps
made him; as his father is being beaten, rather than being mad at Idek,
Eliezer is mad at his father for not avoiding the Kapo.
◍ Chapter 19.
Answer: The Birkenau Jews are marched to Auschwitz. The new prisoners
think that Yanek looks scary. Yanek gets sent to the right and he survives.
◍ Chapter 4.
Answer: Many families come in and live with Yanek's family, and Yanek
and his father sneak out to receive bread from Yanek's uncle.
, ◍ 8.
Answer: The male prisoners are in a line being questioned by Dr. Mengele
and divided into two groups: one group, presumably, is going to be working;
the other group will head straight to the crematorium. (Dr. Josef Mengele
was an infamous Nazi doctor who selected which prisoners would be sent to
labor and which would die.)
◍ 33.
Answer: Stein continues to visit occasionally, and he often brings some of
his own food ration for Eliezer. He tells them that the important thing is to
stay healthy and avoid "selection." (Selection is when the group is divided
between those that are healthy enough to work and those destined for the
crematoria.)
◍ 46.
Answer: Eliezer becomes friends with Czechoslovakian brothers, Yossi and
Tibi, whose parents had been killed in Birkenau.
◍ 20.
Answer: In the striped outfits, the men look like something other than
human. "We had ceased to be men," Wiesel says.
◍ Chapter 15.
Answer: Yanek get transported to Berkano.
◍ Chapter 8.
Answer: Yanek sees his parents being marched to a death camp. Yanek
starts to feel very alone because both his parents and most of his family is
gone.
◍ Chapter 6.
Answer: Yanek sneaks out to have his bar mitzvah after hhis family decided
not to volunteer to go to concentrations camps.
◍ Chapter 7.
Answer: The Nazi requested 7 thousand jews to volunteer to be shipped to a
work camps. When nobody went, the Nazis started shooting up the hospital
PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ 26.
Answer: They continue marching, for half an hour, to another camp (they've
left Birkenau). The iron gate to this camp has an inscription: "work makes
you free." They are now in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
◍ 19.
Answer: The naked men are forced to run outside in the cold to a bath of
disinfectant, and then forced to run again to the storeroom to get striped
prisoner's clothes.
◍ Chapter 27.
Answer: Yanek was marching and went up to Moonface to ask for bread,
because he would have starved, and he actually gave it to him.
◍ 52.
Answer: Back in Buna in 1944, Idek goes crazy again and beats Eliezer's
dad this time. Eliezer reflects on how inhumane the concentration camps
made him; as his father is being beaten, rather than being mad at Idek,
Eliezer is mad at his father for not avoiding the Kapo.
◍ Chapter 19.
Answer: The Birkenau Jews are marched to Auschwitz. The new prisoners
think that Yanek looks scary. Yanek gets sent to the right and he survives.
◍ Chapter 4.
Answer: Many families come in and live with Yanek's family, and Yanek
and his father sneak out to receive bread from Yanek's uncle.
, ◍ 8.
Answer: The male prisoners are in a line being questioned by Dr. Mengele
and divided into two groups: one group, presumably, is going to be working;
the other group will head straight to the crematorium. (Dr. Josef Mengele
was an infamous Nazi doctor who selected which prisoners would be sent to
labor and which would die.)
◍ 33.
Answer: Stein continues to visit occasionally, and he often brings some of
his own food ration for Eliezer. He tells them that the important thing is to
stay healthy and avoid "selection." (Selection is when the group is divided
between those that are healthy enough to work and those destined for the
crematoria.)
◍ 46.
Answer: Eliezer becomes friends with Czechoslovakian brothers, Yossi and
Tibi, whose parents had been killed in Birkenau.
◍ 20.
Answer: In the striped outfits, the men look like something other than
human. "We had ceased to be men," Wiesel says.
◍ Chapter 15.
Answer: Yanek get transported to Berkano.
◍ Chapter 8.
Answer: Yanek sees his parents being marched to a death camp. Yanek
starts to feel very alone because both his parents and most of his family is
gone.
◍ Chapter 6.
Answer: Yanek sneaks out to have his bar mitzvah after hhis family decided
not to volunteer to go to concentrations camps.
◍ Chapter 7.
Answer: The Nazi requested 7 thousand jews to volunteer to be shipped to a
work camps. When nobody went, the Nazis started shooting up the hospital
