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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 happens to Oskar Schindler at the end of 1941?
(a) He buys a second factory.
(b) His wife, Emilie, files for divorce.
(c) His mistress, Ingrid, leaves him.
(d) He is arrested for the first time.

2. What does the SS force former jeweler Mordecai Wulkan to do?
(a) Sell gold and silver on the black market.
(b) Remove the diamonds from Jewish rings.
(c) Create new Nazi jewelry from melted-down Jewish jewelry.
(d) Separate and grade the valuables from dead Jews.

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

4. Lisiek was shot dead by Goeth for what infraction?
(a) Not having dinner ready on time.
(b) Not coming quick enough when Goeth called him.
(c) Harnessing a horse and buggy without first asking permission.
(d) Leaving a ring around Goeth's bathtub.

5. 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) Symche Spira.
(c) Artur Rosenzweig.
(d) Artur Rosenburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. The street on which Oskar Schindler's apartment was located ended at. . .

2. What was the name of Schindler's beautiful Polish secretary?

3. 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?

4. What restaurant did the ZOB bomb?

5. How did Poldek Pfefferberg escape the OD?

Short Essay Questions

1. After arriving in Munich, where did Oskar and Emilie initially lodge?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

7. Henry Rosner recalls that, even after the war, Oskar was the "great discoverer of unprocurables." What did he obtain in Munich that seemingly no one else could obtain?

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

9. Chapters 1-5 describe a point in the war when Germany was advancing quickly, yet little of the actual war movement is described. Why do you think the author chose to do this?

10. Chapter 16 compares the ZOB's resistance style (blowing things up) against Oskar's style (protecting his Jewish workers). Describe which method you think is more effective, and why.

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