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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of school did Leon attend?
(a) Secret Christian school.
(b) Toolmaking school.
(c) Secret Hebrew school.
(d) Mathetmatics school.

3. Why was Tsalig deported in Chapter 4?
(a) He did not have a job.
(b) He refused to answer the Nazis' questions.
(c) He did not show up as required.
(d) He did not have a Blauschein.

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

5. Which of the following was true of Narewka in 1935?
(a) Its streets were paved.
(b) It had electricity.
(c) Its buildings were mostly brick.
(d) Its houses had indoor plumbing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Leon born?

2. How did the Nazis announce what they considered to be their successes?

3. Why did Leon's mother's siblings move to the United States?

4. Why did Moshe move to Krakow?

5. In which of the following fun childhood activities did Leon participate in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, how is Leon's father affected by his beating and imprisonment?

2. In Chapter 2, how was moving to Krakow a series of big adventures for Leon?

3. After reading the prologue, what difficulties do you predict that Leon Leyson, the author and narrator, might face?

4. Why might Leon have made negative comments about Miriam to Tsalig in Chapter 5?

5. In Chapter 4, what was the importance of Leon's father's Bescheinigung?

6. In Chapter 3, after Leon is no longer allowed to attend school because he is Jewish, what feelings does this cause him to have?

7. Leon consistently proves not to be selfish. How does he demonstrate this in Chapter 2?

8. In Chapter 2, readers learn that Hershel has changed from being stubborn and difficult to being considerate and responsible. Why might he have changed?

9. In Chapter 2, why might Leon have felt more nervous excitement than fear while his family and community made emergency plans and preparations for the possibility of war?

10. In Chapter 4, what was the significance of the following phrase: "If this is the worst that happens"?

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