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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. How many Jews from Krakow were to be moved to the ghetto in Chapter 4?

2. Why did Leon's parents no longer have money in a savings account in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 4, what was rumored to be happening to those who were deported?

4. What became a preoccupation for Leon?

5. In Chapter 1, which of the following had the most influence in Leon's daily life?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 3, what does it indicate about Leon that he chases down and confronts one of the the Gestapo who beat up his father, asking where they had taken him?

3. In Chapter 4, what is the symbolic significance of the rounded stones on top of the walls surrounding the ghetto?

4. As discussed in Chapter 1, which aspects of daily life for Leon and his family then, in the 1930s, were different from daily life today?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 4, how did the Shabbat candles help the family?

7. Why was it a relief for Leon when, in Chapter 1, Hershel moved with his father to Kraków?

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

9. In Chapter 2, readers learn that Hershel has changed from being stubborn and difficult to being considerate and responsible. Why might he have changed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways did Leon seem to change and develop as a person from the beginning of his story until the end of it? Trace his development. Which single event do you think changed Leon the most? Why?

Essay Topic 2

How would you describe Leon as a person? Why did you choose each adjective or descriptive phrase that you used?

Essay Topic 3

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

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