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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. What act of togetherness did the workers from Schindler's factory perform after being told by a Russian soldier that they were free?
2. What helped Leon's father regain some of his pride in the United States?
3. What surprised some non-Jewish people in the place where Leon and his family went after being freed?
4. With whom in the United States did Leon first share his experiences during World War II?
5. Why did Leon's father spend a night at Schindler's factory in October 1942?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the epilogue, what is one way that Leon tried to hide his identity and his former life?
2. In the epilogue, what are some of the reasons that Leon might not have wanted to talk about his Holocaust experiences in the United States at first?
3. In Chapter 7, why did Leon's mother make him leave soon after he found her?
4. In Chapter 6, why did Leon say, "By this time survival was mostly a matter of pure luck"?
5. In Chapter 7, how did Oskar Schindler get his sub-camp built?
6. Why were Leon, David, and Moshe to be transferred to Plaszow in Chapter 8?
7. In Chapter 7, how did Leon get to go with his mother to Schindler's sub-camp?
8. In Chapter 10, how were trees that Leon saw sprouting new leaves on their train ride symbolic?
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 10, what is an indication that the suffering of the Leyson family was not over?
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
How would you describe Leon as a person? Why did you choose each adjective or descriptive phrase that you used?
Essay Topic 3
What were some of the techniques people used to keep their sanity throughout this story?
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