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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 lovebird.
(b) A poodle.
(c) A weiner dog.
(d) A Persian cat.

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

3. Julius Madritsch envisioned opening a factory in Podgorze. What did he plan to manufacture there?
(a) Munitions.
(b) Uniforms.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Enamelware.

4. Helen Hirsch refers to Schindler's enamelware factory by what name?
(a) Schindler's Salvation.
(b) Schindler's Hope.
(c) Schindler's Heaven.
(d) Schindler's Emalia.

5. Who is dragging segments of huts uphill on Jerozolimska Street?
(a) Men from the Prokocim camp.
(b) Children from the Prokocim camp.
(c) Half the detainees of the Prokocim camp.
(d) Women from the Prokocim camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what type of venue did Oskar Schindler invite a group of men around Christmas of 1939?

2. While the Prologue's dinner party is going on downstairs, what is happening upstairs?

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

4. In Chapter Two, Oskar Schindler meets a Jewish accountant named. . .

5. How long did Schindler court Emilie before marrying her?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Trustees of Yad Vashem began to collect testimonies regarding Oskar. Were all of them positive? If not, what was a complaint?

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. Of Schindler's first arrest, Keneally writes "he would have enjoyed a radio." What does that tell you about Schindler?

5. 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?

6. What did people like the Rosner brothers and Manci Rosner bring with them when they went to the countryside to "lose themselves among the peasants"?

7. Of the approximately 10,000 men who began the march from Auschwitz toward Gross-Rosen, about how many actually arrived, and what happened to those who didn't?

8. The funeral pyres described in Chapter 27 signal the beginning of the end for Plaszow, yet there is no description of any panic or worry on the part of the prisoners. Having read the descriptions of the prisoners to this point, explain why you think this is so.

9. In the Prologue, Keneally describes Schindler as "Sudenten German--Arkansas to their Manhattan, Liverpool to their Cambridge." What does he mean by this?

10. 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?

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