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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Oskar free from Montelupich prison?
(a) Fraulein Amendela Sopp.
(b) Frau Romana Gintner.
(c) Fraulein Rebecca Tannenbaum.
(d) Frau Helene Schindler.

2. How much was Schindler spending each month on black-market food for his workers?
(a) 25,000 zloty
(b) 50,000 zloty.
(c) 35,000 zloty.
(d) 10,000 zloty.

3. 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 musicians or my maid.
(c) My chef and his helpers.
(d) To keep their wages for yourself.

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

5. 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 she had been found hiding in the Jewish ghetto.
(d) After her husband had been shipped off to Mauthausen.

6. Benjamin Wrozlawski and Roman Wilner jumped from Ostbahn cars in an escape attempt. What happened to Roman Wilner?
(a) He got out, but tripped and was run over by the train.
(b) He was wounded, but still able to flee.
(c) He was shot and killed by the guards.
(d) He escaped by disguising himself as a German woman.

7. About whom was Amon Goeth really worried in Chapter 29?
(a) Wilek Chilowicz.
(b) Wilhelm Koppe.
(c) Mietek Finkelstein.
(d) Marysia Chilowicz.

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

9. Throughout the war years, Oskar is depicted as. . .
(a) Spending like a compulsive gambler.
(b) Bullying his way to the top.
(c) Arguing with the Gestapo.
(d) Living inconspicuously.

10. What did Oskar have secreted away in his car in Chapter 37?
(a) Reichmarks.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Zloty.
(d) American dollars.

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

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

13. 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 teeter totter.
(b) The merry-go-round.
(c) The rainbow bars.
(d) The swing frames.

14. In Jerusalem, Oskar was declared to be what?
(a) A Talmud Hero.
(b) A Yad Vashem.
(c) A Righteous Person.
(d) A Brinnlitz Survivor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By the autumn of 1944, how many people were employed in Madritch's uniform factory?

2. Moshe Bejski, Oskar's former forger of documents, was employed after the war in Tel Aviv in what profession?

3. Where did Poldek Pfefferberg hide while looking for his wife?

4. During the winter of 1944-45, how many people does Keneally state that Schindler and Sussmuth managed to get out of Auschwitz?

5. What happens to Amon Goeth in Chapter 31?

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