The Boy On The Wooden Box

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What do the actions of the children and teachers toward Jewish children in Poland represent in the memoir?

A) How little value they place on human lives

B) The rapidly changing attitudes of German people

C) The deteriorating education system in Poland

D) How quickly small actions can grow into bigger problems

2. What moment in Leon’s life causes him to realize the dangers he will face?

A) The Germans invade Poland.

B) Jewish children are forbidden to attend school.

C) Moshe resists the Germans and is beaten.

D) Jewish people are forced to wear armbands.

3. What do the traumatic experiences mean for Leon’s character growth?

A) He learns to fight back.

B) He must grow up quickly.

C) He teaches himself to be passive.

D) His defiance increases.

4. Based on the way Leon’s friends treat him following the antisemitism in Poland, what can the reader infer about the non-Jewish population?

A) They are cold and indifferent.

B) Their voices are silenced.

C) They don’t know how to help.

D) They do not care about the Nazis.

5. Why did many Jews underestimate the measures Germans would take against the Jewish population?

A) They believed in the German’s good nature to do what is right.

B) They assumed Germany would treat them as they had during World War I.