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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes Leon's parents?

2. In what kind of factory did Leon's father work in Chapter 2?

3. When were Leon and his family forcibly moved into the ghetto?

4. In the prologue, why is Leon Leyson, the author and narrator, nervous?

5. How did Chanah and Moshe meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, how do Leon and his family obtain food?

3. Why did Leon enjoy city life more than his mother, as shown in Chapter 2?

4. In Chapter 3, what might have been some of the effects of the propaganda about and restrictions and abuse against Jews?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 5, when Leon rode the man's bike after cleaning it, why did he feel so free?

7. In Chapter 5, what did Mr. Luftig's pipe collection symbolize to him?

8. As mentioned in Chapter 1, why did Leon's family not often buy new clothes?

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

10. What does it say about Tsalig in Chapter 5 that he refuses to get off the train to deport him because Miriam cannot also go with Schindler?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you consider Leon to have been a hero? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think it's possible that something like the Holocaust could happen now? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Do you consider Oskar Schindler a hero? Why or why not?

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