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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 did Samuel and Yossel discover after the roundup in Chapter 6?
(a) Their father was gone.
(b) Their grandfather was gone.
(c) Their grandmother was gone.
(d) Their mother was gone.

2. When did Leon begin publicly talking about his Holocaust experiences?
(a) Shortly before the film about Schindler was released.
(b) Shortly after he began teaching.
(c) 2 weeks before he began teaching.
(d) After the release of the film about Schindler.

3. What famous film was made about Oskar Schindler?
(a) The Schindler Plan.
(b) The Secret Life of Oskar Schindler.
(c) Schindler's Legacy.
(d) Schindler's List.

4. When had Hershel and Leon's mother's parents been killed?
(a) September 1941.
(b) September 1942.
(c) August 1941.
(d) August 1942.

5. How did Leon find his father and David?
(a) His supervisor told him where they were when he asked.
(b) Someone took him to them.
(c) Someone told him where the Schindler Jews had been assigned.
(d) His mother told him where they were located.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Leon's father spend a night at Schindler's factory in October 1942?

2. When Leon found his father, what did Moshe tell him?

3. How did Chanah help others after being liberated?

4. What happened after Leon left the infirmary in Chapter 7?

5. How many times were the guards instructed by Goeth to whip Leon and the other prisoners who were outside?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 8, what brought back some of Moshe's pride?

3. In Chapter 6, how was Leon able to go with the group leaving for Plaszow even though he was told by a guard that he would go later?

4. In Chapter 7, how did Oskar Schindler get his sub-camp built?

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

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

7. In Chapter 10 and throughout the book, did Leon seem to survive more with luck or with cleverness and ingenuity?

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

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

10. In Chapter 8, how did Leon succeed in getting himself, his brother David, and his father not to have to be transferred to Plaszow?

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