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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. Why did Schindler leave cigarettes at Moshe's work station?
(a) He left them by accident.
(b) He left them so Moshe could trade them for food.
(c) He wanted to see what would happen.
(d) He was trying to introduce Moshe to smoking.

2. What was the name of Germany's Fuhrer who was responsible for the Holocaust?
(a) Amon Goeth.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) Adolf Hitler.
(d) Winston Churchill.

3. What was an omen that Leon thought was positive in Chapter 8?
(a) Light coming into the cattle car.
(b) Austrian troops leaving Poland.
(c) Schindler agreeing to Moshe's request.
(d) The factory at Krakow closing.

4. What type of factory did Leon become assigned to work at in Plaszow?
(a) Brush factory.
(b) Munitions factory.
(c) Glass factory.
(d) Enamelware factory.

5. How did Chanah and Mrs. Bircz plan to try to avoid the roundup in Chapter 6?
(a) By volunteering to leave.
(b) By staying at their jobs overnight.
(c) By hiding in the closets in their apartments.
(d) By appearing busy sweeping and cleaning the courtyard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the United States, what was the first job that Leon's father took?

3. Why did Leon run past the guards in Chapter 9?

4. What request of Moshe's did Schindler agree to in Chapter 8?

5. For what reason might the guards have shot at Leon in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how did Leon get to go with his mother to Schindler's sub-camp?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 7, why did Leon's mother make him leave soon after he found her?

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

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

8. In Chapter 10, what did Dr. Neu's wife possibly mean when she said "We didn't know" about the horrible actions against Jews and others during the Holocaust?

9. In Chapter 9, how were the bolts of cloth and bottles of vodka that Schindler gave his workers supposed to be useful?

10. In the epilogue, what are some indications that Leon was motivated and successful?

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