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

2. On April 29, 1942, where does Oskar Schindler go?
(a) Into the Jewish Ghetto.
(b) To Montelupich prison.
(c) Back to the Pomorska jail.
(d) Into a Jewish synagogue.

3. What was the address of Oskar Schindler's factory?
(a) At the corner of Lipowa and Wawel.
(b) 152 Lodz Avenue.
(c) 79 Toffelmeister.
(d) No. 4 Lipowa Street.

4. In the Prologue, the narrator remarks that only Schindler, Madritsch, and Titsch regularly spent money on this commodity. What is it?
(a) Extra shoes.
(b) Soup for the factory workers.
(c) Extra bread.
(d) Extra uniforms.

5. Bachner saw bunkers in Belzec labeled. . .
(a) Singles and Families.
(b) Baths and Inhalation Rooms.
(c) Men and Women.
(d) Showers and Dressing Rooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women did Schindler estimate were to live in each barracks in Plaszow?

2. What was the "solution" Hitler came up with for getting rid of the Jews?

3. 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?

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

5. In Chapter 13, Richard the barman and his girlfriend visit Henry Rosner in the Jewish ghetto. What does she hide beneath her cape, and smuggle out of the ghetto when she leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Describe Oskar Schindler's physical appearance.

3. 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?

4. According to witnesses, what did Amon Goeth do just before he was hung?

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

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

7. Oskar bought some new machinery locally, some from the "homeland." What might be some reasons for that?

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

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

10. 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?

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