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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 restaurant did the ZOB bomb?
(a) The Polska.
(b) The Warszawa.
(c) The Bohemia.
(d) The Cyganeria.

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

3. What was the Christmas gift that Schindler bought for his secretary Klonowska in Chapter 8?
(a) A lovebird.
(b) A weiner dog.
(c) A poodle.
(d) A Persian cat.

4. With the assistance of Stern, Schindler obtains:
(a) Enamelware to get production started.
(b) Black-market connections for his products.
(c) Documents that will protect him from Hitler.
(d) Loans to start up his business interests.

5. How many women did Schindler estimate were to live in each barracks in Plaszow?
(a) 100.
(b) 150.
(c) 225.
(d) 200.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage does Schindler say he'll take as courier for the resistance?

2. During which war does the action in this novel take place?

3. In the Prologue, what does Goeth refer to Schindler as?

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

5. To what type of venue did Oskar Schindler invite a group of men around Christmas of 1939?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the midst of a concentration camp, Josef Bau meets, falls in love with, and decides to marry Rebecca Tannenbaum. Based on what you know from the book to this point, why do you think Josef did this, when either of their lives could end at any moment?

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

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

4. Oskar promises Edith Liebgold she'll live through the war if she works at DEF. What have you read to this point in the book to indicate Schindler intended on keeping this promise?

5. Chapter 4 deals primarily with the SS Aktion in Kazimierz and gives some history of prior persecution of Jews. Describe one way Oskar Schindler mitigated the risks he took by warning the people in Buchheister of the coming Aktion.

6. Oskar's 37th birthday, described in Chapter 37, is a happy day for the prisoners, though for Oskar there is a cloud over it because of a telegram. What was the news in that telegram?

7. 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?

8. Chapters 26-30 describe several events that hardened Oskar's opinions and made him fight even harder for "his" Jews. List at least two of them.

9. Explain why you think pharmacist Bachner returned from Prokocim to the Cracow ghetto, rather than trying to escape to freedom.

10. Describe how some of the women escaped Gross-Rosen and made it onto "Schindler's list."

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