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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Leon able to contemplate after being freed?
(a) The future.
(b) The past.
(c) The environment.
(d) Human motivation.

2. How many times were the guards instructed by Goeth to whip Leon and the other prisoners who were outside?
(a) 45.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

3. What surprised some non-Jewish people in the place where Leon and his family went after being freed?
(a) That the war was already over.
(b) That the Jews returned.
(c) That Leon and his family were Jewish.
(d) That any non-Jews had ever discriminated against Jews.

4. What language did Leon and other Jewish children speak at home?
(a) English.
(b) Polish.
(c) Yiddish.
(d) German.

5. Why did Hershel go to Krakow with his father?
(a) He wanted to do something more "useful" than attending school.
(b) He was sent to a reform school there.
(c) He was afraid that if he did not join his father there, he would not see his father again.
(d) He preferred rural life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Moshe move to Krakow?

2. What significant event happens when Leon was 8?

3. What is foreshadowed by the Yiddish song "Oyfn Pripetchik" (called "On the Hearth" in English)?

4. On which shift did most Jewish workers at Emalia work?

5. How did Leon's mother, Chanah, obtain food for her family after Moshe was taken away?

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