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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the parallel that Keneally draws with Amon and Oskar's card game?
(a) The chips they used being like the Stone of Destiny.
(b) Playing with thunder, like the god Zeus.
(c) God and Satan playing cards for human souls.
(d) Two men losing their way amidst right and wrong, like the wanderings of Dionysus.

2. Who is the oldest person at the dinner party described in the Prologue?
(a) Franz Bosch.
(b) Raimund Titsch.
(c) Amon Goeth.
(d) Oskar Schindler.

3. In Chapter Three, what does Keneally say will eventually happen to the Pfefferbergs?
(a) They would escape to Germany.
(b) They would have to flee to Switzerland.
(c) They would be ordered out of their apartment and their valuables taken.
(d) They would be taken to a concentration camp.

4. When new identity cards are issued, what do workers at Schindler's Emalia factory get stamped on theirs?
(a) A red "X".
(b) A red Star of David.
(c) A large blue "J" sticker.
(d) A blue "Emalia" stamp.

5. According to Keneally, Hitler switched from shooting Jews to gassing them after what event?
(a) After three Jews had survived an attempted killing and successfully escaped the city.
(b) After Leni Riefenstahl had complained about witnessing the execution of a line of Jews with automatic weapons.
(c) After witnesses from the United Nations heard about the killing from the sounds of gunfire.
(d) After two SS guards were accidentally wounded from ricocheting rounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dead Australian have clutched in his hand?

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

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

4. What is the name of Schindler's wife?

5. In Chapter 8, for whose sake did Oskar Schindler attend church on Christmas morning?

(see the answer key)

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