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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 Leon develop?
2. To which country did David and Pesza finally move?
3. What helped Leon's father regain some of his pride in the United States?
4. What happened after Leon left the infirmary in Chapter 7?
5. What request of Moshe's did Schindler agree to in Chapter 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why were Leon, David, and Moshe to be transferred to Plaszow in Chapter 8?
2. In Chapter 7, how did Oskar Schindler get his sub-camp built?
3. In Chapter 7, what did Leon's father promise that he would do?
4. In the epilogue, what is one way that Leon tried to hide his identity and his former life?
5. In the epilogue, how might it have helped Leon once he told Lis and others about his experiences?
6. 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?
7. In Chapter 9, how did Schindler save the women who were to work at his factory when their train was diverted to Auschwitz?
8. In Chapter 10, why didn't Leon throw things at the defeated and captive German soldiers walking by as some other people did?
9. In the epilogue, why did Leon gradually told his son and daughter about his experiences?
10. In Chapter 8, how did Leon succeed in getting himself, his brother David, and his father not to have to be transferred to Plaszow?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are some ways in which hatred, discrimination, and atrocities like the Holocaust and other genocides can be prevented (or their likelihood lessened)? What can people in general do to make things better? What can you do to make things better?
Essay Topic 2
What role did Leon's Jewish religion play in his life? How did his religious beliefs seem to affect his experiences?
Essay Topic 3
With which person in The Boy on the Wooden Box could you relate the most? Why?
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