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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. Why did Moshe move to Krakow?

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

3. Why did Schindler name his factory "German Enamel Works"?

4. Why did Hershel go to Krakow with his father?

5. What did Leon get to operate in Chapter 4 after he cleaned it for a man who owned it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 3, how does seeing his father get beaten and dragged away seem to affect Leon?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think is the main purpose of the book, The Boy on the Wooden Box?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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