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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Schindler went from protecting the Jews like his own children, to. . .
(a) Testifying in court to keep them out of jail.
(b) Planting a garden in their honor.
(c) Being supported by them, in large part.
(d) Writing a book about them.

2. What does Oskar do for the prisoners in the cattle cars in Chapter 29?
(a) Hires two doctors among the prisoners for his Emalia plant.
(b) Bribes the guards to turn away so a few prisoners can escape.
(c) Convinces Amon Goeth to delay the shipment of prisoners.
(d) Hoses down the cars with water and distributes food.

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

4. Why was Mietek Pemper ordered arrested by a judge?
(a) Because Pemper knew where Goeth had hidden his pilfered goods, but Pemper wouldn't tell the police.
(b) Because Pemper said that Goeth knew the Russians were coming.
(c) Because Goeth had shown Pemper secret documents.
(d) Because Pemper had typed most of Goeth's correspondence.

5. What information did Schindler finally hear, when he and Adam Garde listened to the radio?
(a) That reports of Hitler's death were greatly exaggerated.
(b) That Allied troops had entered Germany.
(c) That Poland had fallen to the Russians.
(d) That a shipment of Jews had been discovered by British troops, and their secret was out.

6. When did Oskar hear news of the German surrender?
(a) May 7, 1945.
(b) April 5, 1945.
(c) May 6, 1945.
(d) April 6, 1945.

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

8. Does an actual list of Schindler survivors exist?
(a) Yes, in the Polish National Museum.
(b) No, no such list survived the war.
(c) Yes, in the archives of the Yad Vashem.
(d) Yes, in the Jewish Museum in Israel.

9. Dolek Horowitz believed the Jews sent from Emalia to Plaszow would be extricated by Schindler because he had. . .
(a) Spoken to Goeth's boss about it.
(b) Dug a tunnel out of Plaszow.
(c) A list.
(d) Bribed Amon Goeth.

10. In Chapter 22, Goeth tells Schindler he can keep his factory workers on the premises, "as long as you don't want. . . . "
(a) To waste space within your factory for their sleeping quarters.
(b) My chef and his helpers.
(c) To keep their wages for yourself.
(d) My musicians or my maid.

11. What happens to Amon Goeth in Chapter 31?
(a) He is promoted to Hauptsturmfuhrer.
(b) His camp is closed.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is arrested.

12. How many of the Goleszow quarry prisoners arrived at Brinnlitz alive?
(a) Around 50.
(b) Around 100.
(c) Nearly all the 1,000 loaded into the freight cars.
(d) Almost 250.

13. Who was the prisoner with the photographic memory who would, in the end, provide damning evidence against Amon Goeth?
(a) Frau Kochmann.
(b) Roman Gintner.
(c) Mietek Pemper.
(d) Symche Spira.

14. Moshe Bejski, Oskar's former forger of documents, was employed after the war in Tel Aviv in what profession?
(a) A locksmith.
(b) A pilot.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

15. What did Stern have engraved on Oskar's ring?
(a) He who saves a single life saves the world.
(b) Every man is an island.
(c) Through God, anything is possible.
(d) Our savior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Amon order to shoot Helen Hirsch?

2. What is the parallel that Keneally draws with Amon and Oskar's card game?

3. In Chapter 31, Goeth sends Helen Hirsch a note requesting several items. What are they?

4. What does the dead Australian have clutched in his hand?

5. About whom was Amon Goeth really worried in Chapter 29?

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