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

2. What is foreshadowed by the Yiddish song "Oyfn Pripetchik" (called "On the Hearth" in English)?
(a) The forthcoming mistreatment of Jews.
(b) The war lasting from 1914-1918.
(c) The family's religious rituals.
(d) The upcoming Thanksgiving season.

3. Why did Leon's father work for free in Chapter 3?
(a) He was required to work, even though he was not paid.
(b) He did it in order to have some protection against the Nazis.
(c) The work enabled him to gain experience to open his own business.
(d) He did this in exchange for housing and food.

4. What language did Leon and other Jewish children speak at home?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) Polish.

5. What ominous sign happened on September 1, 1939?
(a) Poland invaded Germany.
(b) Poland announced that it was changing its government.
(c) The United States invaded Poland.
(d) Germany invaded and attacked Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was true of Narewka in 1935?

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

3. In the prologue, why is Leon Leyson, the author and narrator, nervous?

4. What happened when Leon's cousin Yossel asked his teacher if he could change his name to that of a Polish national hero?

5. Which foreign country posed the greatest threat to Polish Jews in the late 1930s?

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