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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. Who were the Gestapo?

2. Which group did Hitler blame publicly for Germany's problems?

3. Which word best describes Leon's parents?

4. Which foreign country posed the greatest threat to Polish Jews in the late 1930s?

5. What became a preoccupation for Leon?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, how is Leon's father affected by his beating and imprisonment?

2. In Chapter 2, how was moving to Krakow a series of big adventures for Leon?

3. In Chapter 4, what was the importance of Leon's father's Bescheinigung?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 1, in what ways is it apparent that religion played a central role in Leon Leyson's life?

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

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

8. Why might Leon have made negative comments about Miriam to Tsalig in Chapter 5?

9. 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?

10. In Chapter 3, after Leon is no longer allowed to attend school because he is Jewish, what feelings does this cause him to have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think that Tsalig made the right decision by staying on the train with Miriam instead of getting off of it with Oskar Schindler? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

With which person in The Boy on the Wooden Box could you relate the most? Why?

Essay Topic 3

As evidenced by the individuals in The Boy on the Wooden Box, what are ways in which discrimination, mistreatment, and prejudice negatively affect people?

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