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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. How does the pharmacist Bachner say he survived the Prokocim camp?
(a) By producing fake documents and being released.
(b) By hiding in a latrine.
(c) By hiding when everyone was herded off the rail cars.
(d) By jumping off the back of a moving rail car.

2. What does Oskar Schindler hire Mina Pfefferberg to do?
(a) Clean up the apartment after the SS had gone through it, making a mess.
(b) Interior decoration of his Cracow apartment.
(c) Serve as hostess at his frequent dinner parties.
(d) Clean his Cracow apartment once a week.

3. Who is dragging segments of huts uphill on Jerozolimska Street?
(a) Women from the Prokocim camp.
(b) Children from the Prokocim camp.
(c) Men from the Prokocim camp.
(d) Half the detainees of the Prokocim camp.

4. What does Schindler tell Helen Hirsch before he leaves?
(a) "Keep your health."
(b) "You're welcome."
(c) "Watch your back."
(d) "Be careful."

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 Arbberg Clan.
(b) The 5 Spitzes.
(c) The Rosenzweigs, Senior and Junior.
(d) The Cs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, Schindler tries to warn Itzhak Stern about. . .

3. Who comes to Cracow making "wary" inquiries about Schindler?

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

5. What disease did Schindler find the Jewish women fending off in the ghetto by scrubbing and boiling clothes?

Short Essay Questions

1. The ghetto's last morning, as detailed in Chapter 20, was on a Shabbat. Amon Goeth was in Peace Square to supervise. Discuss the imagery Keneally wrote into this scene, and how that imagery made the scene more effective.

2. Chapter 17 has only two main parts: the arrival of dentist Sedlacek in Cracow and Oskar's subsequent decision to help the man and the story of jeweler Wulkan, who ends up removing gold crowns from dead Jews' teeth. Why do you think Keneally juxtaposed these two stories in the same chapter?

3. 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.

4. Keneally writes that Schindler was "frightened" after his second arrest. What was different this time that made him unable to laugh off this arrest as he did the first?

5. Chapter 25 describes Oskar's arrangement of a tour of Plaszow by Babar and Sedlacek, complete with a miniature camera. Emalia is only recently established. Why would Oskar take such a risk?

6. Oskar eventually returns to Frankfurt, where he decides to go into industry again. What type of business does he open?

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

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

9. In Chapter 5, Keneally mentions the Germans' "resettlement policy." What was meant by that term?

10. 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?

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