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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When new identity cards are issued, what do workers at Schindler's Emalia factory get stamped on theirs?
(a) A large blue "J" sticker.
(b) A blue "Emalia" stamp.
(c) A red Star of David.
(d) A red "X".

2. What is the name of Schindler's wife?
(a) Eileen.
(b) Emilie.
(c) Ekaterina.
(d) Eugenia.

3. Where did Danka Dresner attempt to hide?
(a) Inside a false wall in a neighbor's house.
(b) On a small shelf halfway down a neighbor's well.
(c) On a high branch in an evergreen tree.
(d) Beneath loose floorboards in her house.

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

5. When the Gestapo officers arrived at his factory, what did Schindler give to Klonowska?
(a) A list of Jews who worked at his factory.
(b) Some papers to be destroyed.
(c) His wife's jewelry to put into hiding.
(d) A list of people to be approached for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Keneally, Hitler switched from shooting Jews to gassing them after what event?

2. In Chapter Two, Itzhak Stern tells Schindler the phrase that he thinks encouraged Schindler to save all those Jews later in the war. What was that phrase?

3. When Oskar and Goeth meet in Chapter 20, each realizes the other is in Cracow to do what?

4. Who is dragging segments of huts uphill on Jerozolimska Street?

5. According to the Prologue, Herr Schindler approached his dinner at Commandant Goethe's with. . .

Short Essay Questions

1. In an ironic twist, Amon Goeth is arrested in Chapter 31, not for crimes against the prisoners, but for embezzlement. To some of the prisoners, though, like Helen Hirsch and Mietek Pemper, this was worse than a more serious charge. Why?

2. How does witnessing the activities in Krakusa Street affect Schindler?

3. In the Prologue, the prostitute with Goeth guides him up the stairs rather than toward the back of the house. Keneally refers to this as "the sorority in operation." What does he mean by that?

4. What does Dr. Steinberg do while he is a prisoner in the Luftwaffe camp?

5. In Chapter 1, Keneally says "For Oskar, the Thirties must have seemed a mere epilogue to his glorious mistake on the Altvater circuit in the summer of '28." What does he mean by that?

6. At the beginning of Chapter 14, Keneally says "Even in the summer of 1942 it was impossible to guess at the connections between such a man as this and those ovens of extraordinary cubic capacity." What does he mean by this?

7. Little Genia has a fictitious "family." Why?

8. Oskar Schindler, a man very much like his father, apparently married a woman very much like his mother. What reason does Keneally give for Oskar's decision to marry Emilie?

9. Write a short description of what you think an Aktion would have looked like to a Jew in Cracow in 1940.

10. In Chapter 33, Keneally describes three women who made it into the line of women heading for Schindler's camp in Brinnlitz. He says, "for her as for the other two, it was a birthday." What does he mean by that?

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