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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 much did Oskar send his father in a monthly bank draft?
(a) 1,850 RM.
(b) 500 RM.
(c) 1,000 RM.
(d) 2,000 RM.

2. By midsummer of 1940, how many people were employed at Schindler's Emalia plant?
(a) 250.
(b) 50.
(c) 125.
(d) 75.

3. By November 1, 1940, Governor General Frank had moved how many Jewish volunteers out of Cracow?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 18,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 25,000.

4. Who comes to Cracow making "wary" inquiries about Schindler?
(a) A dentist named Sedlacek.
(b) A Jew named Hodermann.
(c) An SS officer named Goebel.
(d) A German named Bachner.

5. In Chapter One, Oskar Schindler meets Eberhard Gebauer, who offers Schindler the opportunity to join the. . .
(a) Untermensch police agency.
(b) Treuhänder committee.
(c) Hakenkreuz security.
(d) Abwehr intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Poldek Pfefferberg escape the OD?

2. According to Keneally, Hitler switched from shooting Jews to gassing them after what event?

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

4. In Chapter 13, where is violinist Henry Rosner working?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. While Titsch does not join Oskar's facory, he does help him add names to the list before it is finalized. Personnel clerk Marcel Goldberg, however, then commences to "tinker" with the names. Based on what you've read in the book, what did Goldberg gain from this tinkering?

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

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 26, Keneally states, "but he (Raimund Titsch) was never the sort of man concerning whom mythologies arose. Oskar was." What does Keanally mean by that?

5. After some of the war crimes trials, Oskar uses money from the Joint Distribution Committee to become a farmer of sorts. What does he decide to farm, and where?

6. 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?

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. 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.

9. In the Prologue, the prostitute with Goeth guides him up the stairs rather than toward the back of the house. Keneally refers to this as "the sorority in operation." What does he mean by that?

10. 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.

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