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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. What happened to the Jews at prayer in the Stara Boznica synagogue when the Einsatzgruppe squad arrived?
(a) Those who allowed their prayer locks to be cut off were freed; the rest were shot dead.
(b) They were herded into cattle cars and taken to a concentration camp.
(c) They were all shot.
(d) The Jews who would not spit on the Torah were shot, and those who would spit on it were let go.

2. While the Prologue's dinner party is going on downstairs, what is happening upstairs?
(a) A listening device is being placed in Goeth's room.
(b) Two prisoners are sneaking in a prostitute for Goeth.
(c) An after-dinner surprise is being set up for Goeth.
(d) Pfefferberg and Lisiek are scrubbing Goeth's bathtub.

3. In Chapter 11, Szymon Jereth is the "unofficial manager" of what?
(a) The box factory he used to own.
(b) A shoe store.
(c) The only bank in town, which the Germans don't know how to run.
(d) A meat-packing business.

4. In Chapter 10, Schindler becomes familiar with someone because of his daily drives past the ghetto area. Who was that person?
(a) Natalya Pomorska.
(b) Artur Rosenzweig.
(c) Artur Rosenburg.
(d) Symche Spira.

5. In Chapter 7, Itzhak Stern visits Schindler to tell him that a family was spreading stories about Schindler. How does Keneally refer to this family?
(a) The 5 Spitzes.
(b) The Cs.
(c) The Rosenzweigs, Senior and Junior.
(d) The Arbberg Clan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachner saw bunkers in Belzec labeled. . .

2. What was the address of Oskar Schindler's factory?

3. What does Jereth point out to Schindler regarding the "wasteland" behind Jereth's factory?

4. In the Prologue, the narrator remarks that only Schindler, Madritsch, and Titsch regularly spent money on this commodity. What is it?

5. What restaurant did the ZOB bomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Trustees of Yad Vashem began to collect testimonies regarding Oskar. Were all of them positive? If not, what was a complaint?

2. When Oskar is trying to leave Brinnlitz, his car won't start. What was the cause?

3. In Chapter 21, Keneally writes, "they thought of him as a good enough fellow who'd been stricken with a form of Jew-love as with a virus. . . But he would have to pay for his disease." What does Keneally mean by that?

4. Chapter 21 is where we see Oskar take action for the first time, speaking to Goeth about moving prisoners directly onto his Emalia property. What reason or reasons did Oskar have for doing this, and how did you see them displayed in the book?

5. Unlike the secret pictures taken by Babar in Chapter 25, Raimund Titsch took rolls of photographs with Goeth's knowledge. In fact, many of them were of Goeth, as well as Goeth's girlfriend Majola. What does the fact that Goeth allowed this tell you about him?

6. How did young Olek Rosner get some water when the train from Goleszow finally stopped?

7. Chapter 17 describes the first time Oskar works for the resistance. It is still relatively early in Oskar's involvement and few reasons are given for Oskar undertaking such a risky journey. Why do you think Oskar decided to risk the trip to Budapest?

8. What does Keneally's initial description of Oskar Schindler tell you about the man?

9. The beginning of Chapter 16 describes the fallout from the Aktion that cleared thousands from the ghetto. Then Keneally writes, "It was no use bringing such tidings to the Judenrat." If the Judenrat were supposed to help the Jews, why would that be the case?

10. In the Prologue, Keneally describes "a prison road paved with Jewish gravestones." Discuss the symbolism of this image.

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