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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Chanah and Mrs. Bircz plan to try to avoid the roundup in Chapter 6?
(a) By staying at their jobs overnight.
(b) By appearing busy sweeping and cleaning the courtyard.
(c) By volunteering to leave.
(d) By hiding in the closets in their apartments.

2. Which foreign country posed the greatest threat to Polish Jews in the late 1930s?
(a) Germany.
(b) The USA.
(c) England.
(d) Australia.

3. For what reason might the guards have shot at Leon in Chapter 6?
(a) He threw a rock at them.
(b) He had disobeyed a direct order from one of them.
(c) He was out past curfew.
(d) He was in an area meant for guards only.

4. Why was going on a train ride exciting for Leon in Chapter 2?
(a) He had never ridden a train before.
(b) His grandfather was a train conductor.
(c) He had only ridden on small trains.
(d) Leon wanted to design trains as a career.

5. Why did Leon's friends start ignoring him?
(a) He was Christian.
(b) He had been rude to them.
(c) He was Jewish.
(d) He had started ignoring them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of work did Leon's mother do?

2. How did Leon's mother, Chanah, obtain food for her family after Moshe was taken away?

3. In December 1939, what did Nazis decree that Jews could no longer do?

4. By Chapter 4, what was the goal of the Leysons?

5. Why did Leon and Yossel help an elderly woman?

(see the answer key)

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