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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. What work-related physical problem did David develop?
(a) He sometimes could not stand.
(b) He got sores on his legs.
(c) He developed gout.
(d) He sometimes had double-vision.

2. What happens to Leon when Schindler catches him away from his work station watching a machine?
(a) He is made to work an extra hour longer than normal.
(b) He is told to get back to work.
(c) He is rewarded by being transferred with David to the toolmaking area.
(d) Schindler asks him to come upstairs to talk to him in his office.

3. What helped Leon's father regain some of his pride in the United States?
(a) Being hired as a machinist because of his skills as an expert craftsman.
(b) Teaching English to other people who spoke English as a second language.
(c) Being able to purchase a yacht.
(d) Being hired as a shift supervisor of a restaurant because of his supervisory expertise.

4. How many times were the guards instructed by Goeth to whip Leon and the other prisoners who were outside?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 45.
(d) 20.

5. Where did Leon earn his bachelor's degree?
(a) American School of Engineering.
(b) New York University.
(c) Cal State Los Angeles.
(d) Cal State Sacramento.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which subject did Leon earn a master's degree at Pepperdine University?

2. Where did Leon first find a place to sleep at Plaszow?

3. What did African-American people having to sit at the back of the bus remind Leon of?

4. Which type of backlash against Jews happened after liberation?

5. What would have happened to the women at Auschwitz who were sent to the left if Schindler had not intervened?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what was a way in which Leon obtained more food?

2. In Chapter 10, why did Leon, and probably others, feel shock and "confused, weak, and ecstatic all at once" after they were liberated?

3. In Chapter 7, what did Leon's father promise that he would do?

4. In the epilogue, why did Leon gradually told his son and daughter about his experiences?

5. In the epilogue, how might it have helped Leon once he told Lis and others about his experiences?

6. In Chapter 10, why didn't Leon throw things at the defeated and captive German soldiers walking by as some other people did?

7. In the epilogue, what is one way that Leon tried to hide his identity and his former life?

8. In Chapter 10, how were trees that Leon saw sprouting new leaves on their train ride symbolic?

9. In Chapter 8, how did Oskar Schindler act differently than most Nazis?

10. In Chapter 6, how did Leon, his mother, Samuel, and Yossel avoid the roundup?

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