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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were some of the items that Schindler bought at extravagant prices, then used in trade for his prisoner workers?
(a) Medicine and fake documents.
(b) Cigarettes and alcohol.
(c) Makeup and fur coats.
(d) Warm blankets and shoes.

2. In 1966, the German government gave Oskar what award?
(a) The Wartime Medal.
(b) The Award of Valor.
(c) The Cross of Merit.
(d) The Army Insignia.

3. What was Oskar Schindler's profit in the year chronicled in Chapter 22?
(a) 8.3 million Reichsmarks.
(b) 10 million Reichsmarks.
(c) 15.8 million Reichsmarks.
(d) 12.7 million Reichsmarks.

4. What is announced regarding Emalia at the beginning of Chapter 30?
(a) Amon Goeth will take over as manager.
(b) It is to be disbanded.
(c) It is to be doubled in size.
(d) Oskar is to be replaced as the owner.

5. Who does Oskar bring to Emalia at the beginning of Chapter 23?
(a) Dolek Horowitz.
(b) Regina, Niusia, and Richard Horowitz.
(c) Luisa Kleinfeld.
(d) Ingrid and Ricard Baume.

6. What does Schindler do with the confiscated Wohlfeiler papers?
(a) He sells them.
(b) He burns them.
(c) He tears them up.
(d) He gives them to the Wohlfeiler family so they can escape.

7. According to Commandant Rudolf Hoss, how many people per day could be gassed at the Auschwitz complex?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 7,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 9,000.

8. During the winter of 1944-45, how many people does Keneally state that Schindler and Sussmuth managed to get out of Auschwitz?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 1,000.

9. Where were the Plaszow men to be sent?
(a) Montelupich.
(b) Plaszow.
(c) Gross-Rosen.
(d) Auschwitz.

10. About what did the SS question Helen Hirsch?
(a) If she had ever tried to escape Plaszow.
(b) The bruises on her face and body.
(c) Where Goeth got the money to live his lavish lifestyle.
(d) Any participation she might have had in Goeth's swindles.

11. Who was the first prisoner that Oskar Schindler had buried after death?
(a) Henry Rosner.
(b) Janka Feigenbaum.
(c) Dr. Alexander Biberstein
(d) Rabbi Levartov.

12. What location does engineer Sussmuth recommend to Oskar as the location of his new plant?
(a) The Hoffman brothers' annex in Brinnlitz.
(b) The Breslau family's grain factory, now idle.
(c) The Zvitava shoe factory.
(d) The abandoned dish factory in Zwittau.

13. The prisoner Luisa, described in Chapter 23, came to Emalia after what event?
(a) After her husband had been shipped off to Mauthausen.
(b) After her son had been taken from her and killed.
(c) After being one of the best workers at Madritch's plant.
(d) After she had been found hiding in the Jewish ghetto.

14. Who did Amon Goeth consider calling as witnesses in his defense when he was tried for war crimes?
(a) Henry Rosner and Oskar Schindler.
(b) Helen Hirsch and Oskar Schindler.
(c) Oskar Schindler and Mietek Pemper.
(d) Oskar Schindler and Klonowska.

15. By the autumn of 1944, how many people were employed in Madritch's uniform factory?
(a) More than 1,000 people.
(b) More than 2,000 people.
(c) More than 3,000 people.
(d) More than 4,000 people.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, Goeth tells Schindler he can keep his factory workers on the premises, "as long as you don't want. . . . "

2. What does Oskar do for the prisoners in the cattle cars in Chapter 29?

3. How long was the first leg of the prisoners' journey from Plaszow to Brinnlitz?

4. To what destination did Oskar sail in the Epilogue?

5. When Oskar returns to Cracow from the Sudetenland, what does he find has happened to two of his barracks?

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