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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 work-related physical problem did David develop?

2. What surprised some non-Jewish people in the place where Leon and his family went after being freed?

3. When did Leon and his parents find out they could move to the United States?

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

5. How many meals were Leon and other workers at Emalia given per day?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what did Leon's father promise that he would do?

2. In Chapter 6, how was Leon able to go with the group leaving for Plaszow even though he was told by a guard that he would go later?

3. In Chapter 8, did Leon's father think that Tsalig is still alive? How do you know?

4. In Chapter 10, why did Leon, and probably others, feel shock and "confused, weak, and ecstatic all at once" after they were liberated?

5. In Chapter 10, how were trees that Leon saw sprouting new leaves on their train ride symbolic?

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

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, how were the bolts of cloth and bottles of vodka that Schindler gave his workers supposed to be useful?

9. In Chapter 10, what did Dr. Neu's wife possibly mean when she said "We didn't know" about the horrible actions against Jews and others during the Holocaust?

10. 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?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

What were some of the techniques people used to keep their sanity throughout this story?

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