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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. Where did Leon work in Chapter 6?

2. Why did Leon want to go to Plaszow in Chapter 6?

3. How many children did Leon and his wife have?

4. How long did Leon teach at Huntington Park High School?

5. Which aunt of Leon's lived in California?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how did Oskar Schindler act differently than most Nazis?

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

3. In Chapter 7, why did Leon's mother make him leave soon after he found her?

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

5. In Chapter 7, why was Leon glad to be assigned a job at the brush factory?

6. In the epilogue, why did Leon gradually told his son and daughter about his experiences?

7. In Chapter 10 and throughout the book, did Leon seem to survive more with luck or with cleverness and ingenuity?

8. In Chapter 9, what was a way in which Leon obtained more food?

9. In Chapter 6, why did Leon's mother break their furniture that they were not taking with them to Ghetto A by throwing it over the railing on the balcony of their apartment?

10. In Chapter 9, why did Leon say that he worried about being shot by the last bullet of the war?

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

What are some reasons that Leon might obsess about being shot with the last bullet of the war?

Essay Topic 3

Leon had to react to many different situations in his book. What is an event described in the book to which Leon reacted in a way that probably saved his life? Explain.

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