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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Schindler give Goeth for continuing his enamelware operations without change?
(a) Potential loss of profit.
(b) Potential loss of his license.
(c) Potential interference from the SS.
(d) Potential industrial problems.

2. How does Dr. H help the bedridden patients avoid the SS Aktion?
(a) By hiding them.
(b) By giving them cyanide.
(c) By drawing the soldiers away from the abandoned hospital.
(d) By covering them with sheets and saying they're dead.

3. In the Prologue, what does Goeth refer to Schindler as?
(a) "Our manufacturer."
(b) "Our corporate giant."
(c) "Our rescuer."
(d) "Our industrialist."

4. What does Vernichtungslager mean?
(a) Hidden refuge.
(b) Travel to the border.
(c) Extermination camp.
(d) Work camp.

5. During which war does the action in this novel take place?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) World War II.

6. In Chapter 8, for whose sake did Oskar Schindler attend church on Christmas morning?
(a) Ingrid, his mistress.
(b) Victoria Klonowska.
(c) His deceased mother.
(d) His father.

7. Amon Goeth attempts to convince Schindler and Madritch to do what?
(a) Provide better working conditions for the Jews.
(b) Move their factories inside Plaszow labor camp.
(c) Let SS officers become supervisors at the plants.
(d) Quit hiring Jews and send them all to Plaszow.

8. How did Poldek Pfefferberg escape the OD?
(a) By saying that his mother was dying.
(b) By pretending he had flat feet.
(c) By feigning a back injury.
(d) By throwing up on his boss.

9. The Judenrat was what?
(a) The Jewish Religious Society.
(b) The Jewish Government.
(c) The Jewish Council.
(d) The Jewish Police Force.

10. When Oskar and Goeth meet in Chapter 20, each realizes the other is in Cracow to do what?
(a) Take advantage of the system.
(b) Spy on the other.
(c) Evade military service.
(d) Make a fortune.

11. In Chapter 10, Keneally states that the SS was becoming more powerful because they were becoming:
(a) Able to distance themselves from their actions and their victims.
(b) Not simply the arm of policy, but the makers of it as well.
(c) Inured to the suffering through which they were putting the Jews.
(d) Closer to the Fuhrer.

12. In Chapter 13, Richard the barman and his girlfriend visit Henry Rosner in the Jewish ghetto. What does she hide beneath her cape, and smuggle out of the ghetto when she leaves?
(a) Photographs of the last Aktion for the British newspapers.
(b) Passport photos to be attached to fake German documents.
(c) Letters to Jewish relatives in other countries.
(d) A young Jewish boy named Olek Rosner.

13. In Chapter 16, how many Jews does Keneally say were cleared from the ghetto in the latest Aktion?
(a) 7,000
(b) 5,000
(c) 6,000
(d) 8,000

14. In Chapter Two, Oskar Schindler meets a Jewish accountant named. . .
(a) Mina Goring.
(b) Ingrid Sudenten.
(c) Itzhak Stern.
(d) Sepp Aue.

15. In Chapter 13, where is violinist Henry Rosner working?
(a) At a mess hall on the Luftwaffe airbase.
(b) In Madritsch's plant.
(c) As second violinist with the Cracow Symphony Orchestra.
(d) In Schindler's Emalia plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Diana Reiter points out flaws in some building foundations, what are Amon Goeth's orders?

2. What was the address of Oskar Schindler's factory?

3. Where did Danka Dresner attempt to hide?

4. Bachner saw bunkers in Belzec labeled. . .

5. In Chapter Two, Itzhak Stern tells Schindler the phrase that he thinks encouraged Schindler to save all those Jews later in the war. What was that phrase?

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