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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 Christmas gift that Schindler bought for his secretary Klonowska in Chapter 8?
(a) A Persian cat.
(b) A lovebird.
(c) A weiner dog.
(d) A poodle.

2. After Diana Reiter points out flaws in some building foundations, what are Amon Goeth's orders?
(a) Shoot her.
(b) Put her in solitary confinement.
(c) Fix the foundations.
(d) Put her in the faulty building.

3. Where did the Poles believe would be a good place to send the Jews?
(a) Africa.
(b) France.
(c) Romania.
(d) Madagascar.

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

5. What is the name of Schindler's wife?
(a) Eugenia.
(b) Emilie.
(c) Eileen.
(d) Ekaterina.

Short Answer Questions

1. When speaking with Oskar in Chapter 12, Philip finds some graffiti on the wall written in Polish. Philip translates it. What did it say?

2. Rolf Czurda tells Oskar the reason the Jews have no future. What is that reason?

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

4. What does the SS force former jeweler Mordecai Wulkan to do?

5. How did Poldek Pfefferberg escape the OD?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Chapter 17 has only two main parts: the arrival of dentist Sedlacek in Cracow and Oskar's subsequent decision to help the man and the story of jeweler Wulkan, who ends up removing gold crowns from dead Jews' teeth. Why do you think Keneally juxtaposed these two stories in the same chapter?

4. In the midst of a concentration camp, Josef Bau meets, falls in love with, and decides to marry Rebecca Tannenbaum. Based on what you know from the book to this point, why do you think Josef did this, when either of their lives could end at any moment?

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. When Oskar is trying to leave Brinnlitz, his car won't start. What was the cause?

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

8. Little Genia has a fictitious "family." Why?

9. In the Prologue, Keneally describes "a prison road paved with Jewish gravestones." Discuss the symbolism of this image.

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

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