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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. Why did Leon, his mother, and his friends finally come out of hiding after two days in the crawl space of a storage shed?
2. What was Plaszow?
3. When did Leon begin publicly talking about his Holocaust experiences?
4. Who could not enter the barracks at Emalia without Schindler's permission?
5. What was Schindler's plan that Leon's father mentions in Chapter 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the epilogue, what are some of the reasons that Leon might not have wanted to talk about his Holocaust experiences in the United States at first?
2. In the epilogue, what is one way that Leon tried to hide his identity and his former life?
3. In the epilogue, what are some indications that Leon was motivated and successful?
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 6, how did Leon, his mother, Samuel, and Yossel avoid the roundup?
6. In Chapter 10, how were trees that Leon saw sprouting new leaves on their train ride symbolic?
7. 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?
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. Why were Leon, David, and Moshe to be transferred to Plaszow in Chapter 8?
10. In Chapter 8, what brought back some of Moshe's pride?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role did Leon's Jewish religion play in his life? How did his religious beliefs seem to affect his experiences?
Essay Topic 2
How would you describe Leon as a person? Why did you choose each adjective or descriptive phrase that you used?
Essay Topic 3
In what ways did Leon seem to change and develop as a person from the beginning of his story until the end of it? Trace his development. Which single event do you think changed Leon the most? Why?
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