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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the Gestapo?
(a) Local Polish politicians.
(b) Polish security guards.
(c) Regional Nazi administrators.
(d) The German secret police.

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

3. Why did Leon's grandfather, Jacob Meyer, lease farmland from the Eastern Orthodox Church?
(a) He was unable to afford to buy the land.
(b) No one in Poland at the time could directly own land.
(c) All citizens of Narewka chose to lease land from the church.
(d) Jews were prohibited by Polish law from owning land.

4. When did Leon's mother light the Shabbat candles?
(a) On Saturday evenings.
(b) On Tuesday afternoons.
(c) On Sunday mornings.
(d) On Friday evenings.

5. Which moments does Leon say are the worst of his life?
(a) Watching his father getting beaten and taken away by the Gestapo.
(b) Learning that Germany had invaded Poland.
(c) Seeing the Poles ransack the apartment of their Jewish neighbor who had fled.
(d) Being ignored by his former friends.

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

7. Why was Leon's father sought after by many factory owners in Krakow?
(a) He was an expert supervisor.
(b) He was an expert electrician.
(c) He was a skilled painter of murals.
(d) He was an expert machinist.

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

9. Which child did Leon think was his father's favorite?
(a) Tsalig.
(b) Pesza.
(c) Hershel.
(d) David.

10. Where did Mr. Luftig promise to take Leon someday?
(a) Indonesia.
(b) India.
(c) America.
(d) Australia.

11. Who were the Leyson's neighbors in their apartment in the ghetto?
(a) Mr. Grayson and his children.
(b) Mr. and Mrs. Luftig.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Lansman.
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Morris.

12. How did the Nazis announce what they considered to be their successes?
(a) On television.
(b) On big screens with newsreels.
(c) Through Morse code.
(d) By roving announcers.

13. How many synagogues were located in Krakow when Leon moved there?
(a) 27.
(b) More than 1,000.
(c) Less than 10.
(d) More than 100.

14. In what kind of factory did Leon's father work in Chapter 2?
(a) A clothing factory.
(b) A balloon factory.
(c) A glass factory.
(d) A paper factory.

15. Why did the Nazi soldiers break into the Leyson family's apartment and slap Leon?
(a) He had refused to speak to one of them.
(b) They found out he was Jewish.
(c) They noticed that he was not wearing his required armband.
(d) He had disobeyed an order from one of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was going on a train ride exciting for Leon in Chapter 2?

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

3. What is one way in which Moshe's job at Schindler's factory benefited his family and him?

4. Where did the Gestapo take Moshe in Chapter 3?

5. In Chapter 4, what was rumored to be happening to those who were deported?

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