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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 11, where was Schindler taken?
(a) The SS complex in Cracow.
(b) To his house.
(c) To the Jewish ghetto.
(d) Montelupich prison.

2. 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?
(a) Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
(b) He who planteth, soweth.
(c) He who saves the life of one man saves the entire world.
(d) There is a time and a purpose to everything under the heavens.

3. How much does Oskar use to bribe the SS man to buy him a bottle of vodka in Chapter 11?
(a) 50 zloty.
(b) 40 zloty.
(c) 60 zloty.
(d) 75 zloty.

4. What was the "solution" Hitler came up with for getting rid of the Jews?
(a) Chromium B.
(b) Hydrogen Peroxide.
(c) Zyklon B.
(d) Sodium Hydroxide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was president of the Judenrat in Chapter 7?

2. What happened to the Jews at prayer in the Stara Boznica synagogue when the Einsatzgruppe squad arrived?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Oskar and Oberleutnant Sussmuth get an additional approximately 3,000 women out of Auschwitz?

3. Mila and Poldek Pfefferberg meet and marry in the Jewish ghetto. Why might Keneally have included this information in the midst of the ghetto clearance, in which thousands were killed.

4. 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?

5. Write a short description of what you think an Aktion would have looked like to a Jew in Cracow in 1940.

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

7. Chapter 23 tells the story of Regina Perlman, a Jew living under forged South American papers. She goes to Schindler to beg for the transfer of her parents to Emalia. What were the risks on both sides of this transaction?

8. Chapter 21 is where we see Oskar take action for the first time, speaking to Goeth about moving prisoners directly onto his Emalia property. What reason or reasons did Oskar have for doing this, and how did you see them displayed in the book?

9. In Chapter 1, Keneally says "For Oskar, the Thirties must have seemed a mere epilogue to his glorious mistake on the Altvater circuit in the summer of '28." What does he mean by that?

10. 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?

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