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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Hershel go to Krakow with his father?
(a) He wanted to do something more "useful" than attending school.
(b) He was afraid that if he did not join his father there, he would not see his father again.
(c) He was sent to a reform school there.
(d) He preferred rural life.

2. Which of Leon's siblings was most likely to tease him?
(a) Pesza.
(b) Hershel.
(c) David.
(d) Tsalig.

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

4. Which aspect of the Sabbath did Leon particularly enjoy?
(a) The business.
(b) The academics.
(c) The work.
(d) The quiet.

5. How did Chanah and Moshe meet?
(a) They met at the factory in which Moshe worked.
(b) Chanah carried water to workers, among them Moshe, in the field.
(c) Their marriage was arranged by their parents.
(d) Chanah and Moshe met in the synagogue while reciting questions in Hebrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Leon singled out by his fourth-grade teacher one day?

2. Which trait did Leon share with his new friends in Krakow in Chapter 2?

3. According to the prologue, how did Leon Leyson reach the controls of the machine he was supposed to operate in Schindler's factory?

4. Why wasn't Moshe fired by the new Nazi owners of the glass factory when all other Jewish workers there were?

5. What was the name of the Nazi business owner who hired Leon's father?

(see the answer key)

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