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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why wasn't Moshe fired by the new Nazi owners of the glass factory when all other Jewish workers there were?
(a) He spoke German.
(b) He had been the first worker hired there.
(c) He spoke Hebrew.
(d) He begged not to be fired.

2. Before 1939, what was the war that lasted from 1914-1918 called?
(a) The German-Polish War.
(b) The Great War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

3. How many Jews from Krakow were to be moved to the ghetto in Chapter 4?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) over 50,000.
(d) 15,000.

4. According to the prologue, how did Leon Leyson reach the controls of the machine he was supposed to operate in Schindler's factory?
(a) He stood on a metal shipping container.
(b) He stood on a wooden box.
(c) He stood on a 4-foot-long ladder.
(d) He stood on a footstool.

5. Why did the people who broke in and ransacked a neighbor's apartment report Leon's father to the Gestapo?
(a) He was not wearing a Star of David armband.
(b) He refused to give them the key to the apartment.
(c) He told them not to break into the apartment.
(d) He did not have a work permit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word describes the way Leon and David responded in the days after their father is beaten and taken away?

2. After the Germans first invaded in 1939, which country was most likely to help Poland defeat the Germans?

3. Why did the Nazi soldiers break into the Leyson family's apartment and slap Leon?

4. Why did Moshe move to Krakow?

5. In which of the following fun childhood activities did Leon participate in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, after Leon is no longer allowed to attend school because he is Jewish, what feelings does this cause him to have?

2. What does it say about Tsalig in Chapter 5 that he refuses to get off the train to deport him because Miriam cannot also go with Schindler?

3. Why might Leon have made negative comments about Miriam to Tsalig in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 3, what might have been some of the effects of the propaganda about and restrictions and abuse against Jews?

5. In Chapter 4, what was the importance of Leon's father's Bescheinigung?

6. In Chapter 2, why might Leon's parents have downplayed the severity of events that were happening, particularly those against Jewish people?

7. In Chapter 3, how is Leon's father affected by his beating and imprisonment?

8. Why was it a relief for Leon when, in Chapter 1, Hershel moved with his father to Kraków?

9. In Chapter 5, what did Mr. Luftig's pipe collection symbolize to him?

10. In Chapter 5, how do Leon and his family obtain food?

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