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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 many women did Schindler estimate were to live in each barracks in Plaszow?
(a) 150.
(b) 200.
(c) 225.
(d) 100.

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

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

4. To what type of venue did Oskar Schindler invite a group of men around Christmas of 1939?
(a) A jazz club.
(b) A country club.
(c) A men's club.
(d) A high-class dinner club.

5. In Chapter 11, Szymon Jereth is the "unofficial manager" of what?
(a) The only bank in town, which the Germans don't know how to run.
(b) The box factory he used to own.
(c) A shoe store.
(d) A meat-packing business.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Diana Reiter points out flaws in some building foundations, what are Amon Goeth's orders?

2. In Chapter 11, who does Schindler name as the plant manager of DEF?

3. Julius Madritsch envisioned opening a factory in Podgorze. What did he plan to manufacture there?

4. How much does Helen Hirsch pay Schindler to rescue her sister?

5. In Chapter Three, what does Keneally say will eventually happen to the Pfefferbergs?

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. 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?

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

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. In an ironic twist, Amon Goeth is arrested in Chapter 31, not for crimes against the prisoners, but for embezzlement. To some of the prisoners, though, like Helen Hirsch and Mietek Pemper, this was worse than a more serious charge. Why?

6. Why are the doctors in Chapter 34 so worried about the possibility of a typhus outbreak at Brinnlitz?

7. How does witnessing the activities in Krakusa Street affect Schindler?

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

9. 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?

10. At the beginning of Chapter 6, Keneally describes Oskar Schindler using "portable wealth--diamonds, gold, trade goods" as the desirable currency of the day. Describe some of the "trade goods" that you think might have been used as currency or barter since much of the Jewish wealth had been confiscated.

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