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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much does Helen Hirsch pay Schindler to rescue her sister?
(a) 2,000 zloty.
(b) 4,000 zloty.
(c) 3,000 zloty.
(d) 1,000 zloty.

3. In Chapter 7, Itzhak Stern visits Schindler to tell him that a family was spreading stories about Schindler. How does Keneally refer to this family?
(a) The 5 Spitzes.
(b) The Cs.
(c) The Arbberg Clan.
(d) The Rosenzweigs, Senior and Junior.

4. In what year was Oskar Schindler born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1909.

5. Who is the oldest person at the dinner party described in the Prologue?
(a) Raimund Titsch.
(b) Amon Goeth.
(c) Oskar Schindler.
(d) Franz Bosch.

6. In Chapter 4, Schindler tries to warn Itzhak Stern about. . .
(a) An SS invasion of Kazimierz the next day.
(b) The imminent seizure of their property.
(c) The drowning of the local rabbi next week.
(d) An SS spy operating in their neighborhood.

7. 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 bribing the guard at the door with 1,000 zloty.
(c) By forging a pass from Hitler himself.
(d) By showing an official-looking document to a soldier who couldn't read German.

8. In the Prologue, the narrator remarks that only Schindler, Madritsch, and Titsch regularly spent money on this commodity. What is it?
(a) Extra shoes.
(b) Soup for the factory workers.
(c) Extra uniforms.
(d) Extra bread.

9. What was the address of Oskar Schindler's factory?
(a) At the corner of Lipowa and Wawel.
(b) 79 Toffelmeister.
(c) No. 4 Lipowa Street.
(d) 152 Lodz Avenue.

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

11. When speaking with Oskar in Chapter 12, Philip finds some graffiti on the wall written in Polish. Philip translates it. What did it say?
(a) "The Nazis will never win."
(b) "Please, get me out of here!"
(c) "Wilfred Gosch was here."
(d) "My God, how they beat me!"

12. In Chapter Three, what does Keneally say will eventually happen to the Pfefferbergs?
(a) They would escape to Germany.
(b) They would be ordered out of their apartment and their valuables taken.
(c) They would have to flee to Switzerland.
(d) They would be taken to a concentration camp.

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

14. 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) Letters to Jewish relatives in other countries.
(c) Passport photos to be attached to fake German documents.
(d) A young Jewish boy named Olek Rosner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Julius Madritsch envisioned opening a factory in Podgorze. What did he plan to manufacture there?

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

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

4. How long did Schindler court Emilie before marrying her?

5. In which country does the novel take place?

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