Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key plot points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Prologue-Chapter 3

Reading Check

1. What did Lale volunteer to do in an attempt to save his family from Nazi persecution?

2. What is Lale’s prisoner number?

3. What are the kapos?

4. When Lale is first made the sole Tätowierer of Auschwitz, who is named as his assistant?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. According to Lale, why does he work slower than usual when tattooing young girls?

2. What happens in the livestock car that shows Lale commands respect from his fellow prisoners? What are some of the reasons he might immediately gain their respect?

Paired Resource

“German-made WW II-Era Freight Wagon Installed at Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York”

• Lale and nearly 50 other prisoners are transported to Auschwitz via a livestock car. A freight car is a central feature of an exhibit—Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.—that ran from May 2019 to January 2020 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
• Why do you think the freight car was central to this exhibition? What makes it a particularly powerful symbol of the Trauma that Jewish people suffered at Auschwitz?