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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the parallel that Keneally draws with Amon and Oskar's card game?
(a) Two men losing their way amidst right and wrong, like the wanderings of Dionysus.
(b) Playing with thunder, like the god Zeus.
(c) God and Satan playing cards for human souls.
(d) The chips they used being like the Stone of Destiny.

2. What privilege does Schindler secretly grant to Rabbi Levartov once he's at Emalia?
(a) The ability to write short postcards and smuggle them out of the factory.
(b) Time to read his Torah.
(c) The ability to organize nighttime prayer groups.
(d) Reciting the Kiddush in preparation for the Shabbat.

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

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

5. In the end, Brinnlitz produced how many functional pieces of armament?
(a) None.
(b) Only one ton's worth.
(c) Only one shipment's worth.
(d) Only twelve working pieces.

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

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

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

9. When Schindler breaks into the abandoned warehouse in Chapter 37, what does he find?
(a) Marlboro cigarettes.
(b) Chopin vodka.
(c) Egipski cigarettes.
(d) Wyborowa vodka.

10. What phrase was on the posters that went up in Oskar's hometown?
(a) Jews--lice--danger.
(b) Keep the Jewish criminals out.
(c) We'll win the war without you, Jew.
(d) No Jews, no way!

11. What type of "meeting" does Oskar attend, along with Madritsch and Bosch, in Amon's office in Chapter 29?
(a) A security conference.
(b) A discussion of "Special Treatment."
(c) A meeting of minds.
(d) A prisoner transfer consultation.

12. How long was the first leg of the prisoners' journey from Plaszow to Brinnlitz?
(a) Two days.
(b) A week.
(c) Three days.
(d) Four days.

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

14. Young Richard Rosner was never able to go to a children's playground again without growing hysterical at the sight of what piece of equipment?
(a) The merry-go-round.
(b) The rainbow bars.
(c) The swing frames.
(d) The teeter totter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did the Joint Distribution Committee grant to Oskar as thanks for his work?

2. Who was the prisoner with the photographic memory who would, in the end, provide damning evidence against Amon Goeth?

3. What is announced regarding Emalia at the beginning of Chapter 30?

4. What does Schindler pay to Grun for not executing Lamus?

5. Who did Oskar free from Montelupich prison?

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