The Boy on the Wooden Box – Flashcards
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, who is the author?
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Leon Leyson
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what does Shaina mean in Yiddish?
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It means beautiful (pg.7)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what gifts did Leon's dad bring from the city?
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He brought candy boxes with photos (pg.13)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what time of year did the Christians treat the Jews differently?
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On Holy Week the week before Easter (pg.17)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, where did Leon go to in the afternoon?
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He went to heder a Jewish school (pg.19)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did people sometimes ask Leon to do after they came back from the synagogue?
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They asked him to sing (pg.19)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon's grandfather bring his family?
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Potatoes, beets, and other produce from his garden (pg.24)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what attacks did Leon's parents live through?
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They lived through attacks called pogroms in the early 1900's (pg.27)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what would Leon do sometimes to make sure he wasn't dreaming?
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He put his hand on the building (pg.35)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did some Jews do to be prepared for war?
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They leaved Krakow (pg.45)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, everyone who was Jewish were fired from the glass factory, but Leon's dad wasn't. Why wasn't he?
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He knew how to speak German (pg.54)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, who did Leon see one day on the way back from work?
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He saw the same Gestapo who had beaten Leon's dad (pg.61)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, where was Leon's dad?
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He was at St. Michael's prison (pg.61)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what were you supposed to wear if you were twelve?
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A white armband with a blue star of David (pg.63)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, where did you purchase a white armband?
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You purchased it from the Jewish Council (pg.63)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Schindler rename his company?
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He renamed it German Enamel Works (pg.68)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, why did Leon laugh even though he didn't quite get the jokes?
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Because it was a way to show the Nazis they didn't control him.(pg.83)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon do instead of eating the whole loaf of bread?
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He took it straight to his mom to share the bread with the family (pg.88)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon and his friends do to get a free ride on the train?
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They would start at one end until the conductor got close. Then they would jump off and run to the other side (pg.35)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon's father sell at the Black Market to make more money?
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His fine suits (page 69)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, why did someone try to shoot Leon and his friend?
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They stayed up past the curfew (pg.99)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, where did Leon and his mom transfer to?
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They transferred to Ghetto A (pg.106)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did mother leave that made it look suspicious they were hiding?
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She left a teapot (pg.103)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what was Leon convinced about when he entered Plaszow?
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He would never leave alive (pg.114)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did some of the prisoners do when they felt sorry for Leon being such a young boy?
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They put a real potato in his bowl (pg.123)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did David do if Leon looked like he might drift off?
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He would nudge him (pg.137)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon stand on since he was so small?
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He stood on a wooden box (pg.138)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, how did Schlinder find out there was a mix-up?
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Leon's bottle crashed into little pieces, and that caught his attention (pg.146 and 147)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, after showers what did they do to you?
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They shaved off your hair (pg.153)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon do when they wanted to order food in America?
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They pointed to what someone else was eating (pg.183)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, how many brothers and sisters did Leon have?
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He had three brothers and one sister (pg.14)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, how old was Leon when he moved to the city of Krakow?
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He was eight years old (pg.31)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what was a central plan of Hitler's plan?
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It was to marginalize Jews (pg.40)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon's father sometimes bring back from the Enamel factory?
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He sometimes brought pieces of bread or coal (pg.68)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Mr. Luftig leave for Leon?
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A glass-lined thermos bottle and his pipes (pg.93)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon and his friends play?
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They played evading the conductor (pg.36)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, why didn't Tsalig leave the train?
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He didn't want to leave Miriam (pg.96)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, when did Leon die?
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January 12, 2013 (pg.216)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, what did Leon's father work as?
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He worked as a machinist (pg.10)
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ITB, The Boy on the Wooden Box, whose rise to power in 1933 led to the events of the book?
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Adolf Hitler (pg.40)
