Leon
Setting/Plot
Events
Other
100

How many siblings does Leon have?

4

100

What country is the setting for most of the book?

Poland

100

What does Leon have to leave behind when he and his family move from ghetto B to ghetto A?

Mr. Luftig’s pipe collection.

100

How many Jews did Schindler ultimately save?

nearly 1200

200

What modern invention amazes Leon in their apartment in Krakow?

indoor plumbing

200

The family learns that Hitler has expelled whom from Germany?

Polish Jews

200

Which member of Leon’s family is arrested and taken away while they are in the ghetto?

Tsalig

200

What did the father like to purchase for himself?

elegant suits

300

How old is Leon when the war begins?

He is still in elementary school

300

What is the part of the city called where all Jews are moved in the end of 1940?

The ghetto

300

When Leon’s father and Leon’s brother, Herschel, return to Narewka in 1939, who decides to return to Krakow and who remains in Narewka?

The dad returns to Krakow and Herschel stays in Narewka. 

300

VOCAB TIME! 

What does it mean to use information/images to manipulate people?

Propaganda
400
According to Leon, what is the worst thing about living in the ghetto?
Starving.. never having enough food
400

What point of view is the story told in?

First person

400

How does Leon’s father meet Oskar Schindler?

He cracks open a safe for him.

400

How many days did Leon spend hiding the rafters with his mother and the other children to avoid the round up in Chapter 6?

2 days

500

Who is Leon's hero?

Oskar Schindler

500

The Germans put up posters all over depicting what?

Jews looking ugly and dirty

500

What happened to Leon's father, brother, and sister at the end of the round-up in Chapter 6?

They are forced to work at a labor camp

500

What type of book is Boy on the Wooden Box?

A memoir