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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Leon's father and Hershel head back to Narewka?
(a) They went to try to avoid being conscripted into the war.
(b) They went to retrieve items the family had left there.
(c) They went to earn more money for the family.
(d) They went because they were required to do so.

3. According to the prologue, how did Oskar Schindler convince the Nazis to give permission for Leon and other Jewish people to work in his factories?
(a) He explained that they could help him build more factories.
(b) He claimed that they might possibly be spies working for the enemy.
(c) He claimed they were essential to the war effort.
(d) He said that the workers would help to rebuild Germany's economy.

4. According to the prologue, how did Leon Leyson reach the controls of the machine he was supposed to operate in Schindler's factory?
(a) He stood on a 4-foot-long ladder.
(b) He stood on a wooden box.
(c) He stood on a footstool.
(d) He stood on a metal shipping container.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Chanah and Moshe meet?

2. Why did Leon's grandfather, Jacob Meyer, lease farmland from the Eastern Orthodox Church?

3. Why did Hershel's family, his parents and siblings, not see him much when they lived in Krakow?

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

5. What language did Leon and other Jewish children speak at home?

(see the answer key)

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