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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease did Schindler find the Jewish women fending off in the ghetto by scrubbing and boiling clothes?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Diptheria.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Influenza.

2. In the Prologue, a prisoner is also on his way to the Commandant's villa. Who is that prisoner?
(a) Ivan the Ukranian.
(b) Polek Pfefferberg.
(c) Helen Hirsch.
(d) The chauffeur.

3. What was the amount of the bribe that Marek Biberstein was going to pay to allow 10,000 Cracow Jews to remain in their homes?
(a) 200,000 zloty.
(b) 100,000 euros.
(c) 100,000 zloty.
(d) 50,000 dollars.

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

5. How does Leopold Pfefferberg escape his imprisonment in the Cracow train station?
(a) By taking the guard's gun and threatening him with it.
(b) By showing an official-looking document to a soldier who couldn't read German.
(c) By forging a pass from Hitler himself.
(d) By bribing the guard at the door with 1,000 zloty.

6. After the December 4th Aktion, Itzhak Stern decides that Oskar Schindler is:
(a) A Hasidei Ummot Ha-olam.
(b) A just Goy.
(c) A Wehrmacht officer.
(d) A spy for the Germans.

7. What happened to the Jews at prayer in the Stara Boznica synagogue when the Einsatzgruppe squad arrived?
(a) Those who allowed their prayer locks to be cut off were freed; the rest were shot dead.
(b) The Jews who would not spit on the Torah were shot, and those who would spit on it were let go.
(c) They were all shot.
(d) They were herded into cattle cars and taken to a concentration camp.

8. What gift does Herr Schindler bring with him to dinner in the Prologue?
(a) A solid gold tie clip.
(b) Cognac.
(c) A gold-plated cigarette case.
(d) Whiskey.

9. 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?
(a) Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
(b) He who saves the life of one man saves the entire world.
(c) He who planteth, soweth.
(d) There is a time and a purpose to everything under the heavens.

10. How much did Oskar send his father in a monthly bank draft?
(a) 2,000 RM.
(b) 1,000 RM.
(c) 1,850 RM.
(d) 500 RM.

11. According to Keneally, Hitler switched from shooting Jews to gassing them after what event?
(a) After three Jews had survived an attempted killing and successfully escaped the city.
(b) After Leni Riefenstahl had complained about witnessing the execution of a line of Jews with automatic weapons.
(c) After witnesses from the United Nations heard about the killing from the sounds of gunfire.
(d) After two SS guards were accidentally wounded from ricocheting rounds.

12. Where did the Rosner brothers go in their attempt to escape the actions of the Germans?
(a) Tyniec.
(b) Cracow.
(c) Wegierska.
(d) Lodz.

13. Bachner saw bunkers in Belzec labeled. . .
(a) Singles and Families.
(b) Showers and Dressing Rooms.
(c) Baths and Inhalation Rooms.
(d) Men and Women.

14. How does Schindler refer to Goeth in Chapter 20?
(a) As an executioner.
(b) As a cunning planner.
(c) As a power-hungry madman.
(d) As a lunatic.

15. In Chapter 10, Schindler becomes familiar with someone because of his daily drives past the ghetto area. Who was that person?
(a) Symche Spira.
(b) Artur Rosenburg.
(c) Natalya Pomorska.
(d) Artur Rosenzweig.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Schindler give Goeth for continuing his enamelware operations without change?

2. By midsummer of 1940, how many people were employed at Schindler's Emalia plant?

3. What percentage does Schindler say he'll take as courier for the resistance?

4. While the Prologue's dinner party is going on downstairs, what is happening upstairs?

5. What was the "solution" Hitler came up with for getting rid of the Jews?

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