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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. How did Tsalig learn about electricity and its installation?
(a) He attended an electronics academy.
(b) He taught himself.
(c) He took a correspondence course through the mail.
(d) He learned from his father.

2. After the Germans first invaded in 1939, which country was most likely to help Poland defeat the Germans?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Austria.

3. In the prologue, why is Leon Leyson, the author and narrator, nervous?
(a) He is worried about World War II beginning.
(b) He is concerned about his economic situation.
(c) He is afraid that Oskar Schindler will not remember him.
(d) He is scared about mistakes he has made in the past.

4. Which moments does Leon say are the worst of his life?
(a) Learning that Germany had invaded Poland.
(b) Watching his father getting beaten and taken away by the Gestapo.
(c) Being ignored by his former friends.
(d) Seeing the Poles ransack the apartment of their Jewish neighbor who had fled.

5. Why did Leon not try to save Tsalig?
(a) He was worried that his family members would lose their jobs if he did.
(b) He was afraid his family would have to relocate to another apartment if he did.
(c) He was afraid they would discover that his father did not have a work permit.
(d) He knew he would be endangering his whole family if he did.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Tsalig deported in Chapter 4?

3. Who did Leon's parents and many others in Narewka make a mistake of trusting in 1939?

4. What is one way in which Moshe's job at Schindler's factory benefited his family and him?

5. Why did the people who broke in and ransacked a neighbor's apartment report Leon's father to the Gestapo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 4, what was the significance of the following phrase: "If this is the worst that happens"?

4. As discussed in Chapter 1, which aspects of daily life for Leon and his family then, in the 1930s, were different from daily life today?

5. In Chapter 2, how was moving to Krakow a series of big adventures for Leon?

6. Which details in Chapter 1 reflect the fun and carefree aspects of Leon's childhood?

7. In Chapter 5, when Leon rode the man's bike after cleaning it, why did he feel so free?

8. Why might Jewish people in Narewka have trusted German soldiers when they entered Poland in 1939?

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

10. In Chapter 4, what is the symbolic significance of the rounded stones on top of the walls surrounding the ghetto?

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