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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. When did Leon leave Plaszow for the last time?
(a) October 15, 1944.
(b) January 10, 1944.
(c) May 27, 1942.
(d) September 30, 1945.

2. What did the word "Schindlerjuden" mean?
(a) Schindler family heritage.
(b) Schindler's homeland.
(c) Schindler's factory.
(d) Schindler Jews.

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

4. When Leon found his father, what did Moshe tell him?
(a) Don't make the guards angry.
(b) Don't attract attention.
(c) Come back when he could.
(d) Find his mother and give her a message.

5. What language did Leon learn so he could talk to a girl in camp in Wetzlar?
(a) Mandarin Chinese.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) Hungarian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which adjective best describes Amon Goeth?

3. Why did Leon, his mother, and his friends finally come out of hiding after two days in the crawl space of a storage shed?

4. To which town was Schindler's factory being moved?

5. What did Schindler do after having Moshe, Leon, and David return to Emalia in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, why did Leon decide to leave his fedora behind instead of wearing it as he set off for California?

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

4. In the epilogue, what are some of the reasons that Leon might not have wanted to talk about his Holocaust experiences in the United States at first?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. Why were Leon, David, and Moshe to be transferred to Plaszow in Chapter 8?

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

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