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

2. How does Dr. H help the bedridden patients avoid the SS Aktion?
(a) By covering them with sheets and saying they're dead.
(b) By drawing the soldiers away from the abandoned hospital.
(c) By hiding them.
(d) By giving them cyanide.

3. What does Vernichtungslager mean?
(a) Hidden refuge.
(b) Extermination camp.
(c) Work camp.
(d) Travel to the border.

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

5. What color does the little girl who is brought to the Dresners prefer?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Orange.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue, what does Bosch ask Schindler for, to benefit one of Bosch's relatives?

2. In Chapter 13, Richard the barman and his girlfriend visit Henry Rosner in the Jewish ghetto. What does she hide beneath her cape, and smuggle out of the ghetto when she leaves?

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

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

5. How does Schindler refer to Goeth in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Unlike the secret pictures taken by Babar in Chapter 25, Raimund Titsch took rolls of photographs with Goeth's knowledge. In fact, many of them were of Goeth, as well as Goeth's girlfriend Majola. What does the fact that Goeth allowed this tell you about him?

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

5. 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.

6. Oskar's 37th birthday, described in Chapter 37, is a happy day for the prisoners, though for Oskar there is a cloud over it because of a telegram. What was the news in that telegram?

7. What types of professions merited a blue sticker on the new identity cards, as described in Chapter 13?

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

9. 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.

10. 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?

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