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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. Where did Danka Dresner attempt to hide?
(a) Beneath loose floorboards in her house.
(b) On a small shelf halfway down a neighbor's well.
(c) Inside a false wall in a neighbor's house.
(d) On a high branch in an evergreen tree.

2. When the Gestapo officers arrived at his factory, what did Schindler give to Klonowska?
(a) His wife's jewelry to put into hiding.
(b) A list of people to be approached for help.
(c) A list of Jews who worked at his factory.
(d) Some papers to be destroyed.

3. In Chapter 13, where is violinist Henry Rosner working?
(a) In Madritsch's plant.
(b) As second violinist with the Cracow Symphony Orchestra.
(c) At a mess hall on the Luftwaffe airbase.
(d) In Schindler's Emalia plant.

4. What was the amount of the bribe that Marek Biberstein was going to pay to allow 10,000 Cracow Jews to remain in their homes?
(a) 50,000 dollars.
(b) 100,000 zloty.
(c) 100,000 euros.
(d) 200,000 zloty.

5. When speaking with Oskar in Chapter 12, Philip finds some graffiti on the wall written in Polish. Philip translates it. What did it say?
(a) "Please, get me out of here!"
(b) "Wilfred Gosch was here."
(c) "My God, how they beat me!"
(d) "The Nazis will never win."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, Schindler becomes familiar with someone because of his daily drives past the ghetto area. Who was that person?

3. What was the address of Oskar Schindler's factory?

4. What was the "solution" Hitler came up with for getting rid of the Jews?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Keneally's initial description of Oskar Schindler tell you about the man?

4. Chapters 26-30 describe several events that hardened Oskar's opinions and made him fight even harder for "his" Jews. List at least two of them.

5. Describe how the dinner party contrasts with the season Keneally describes in the book's Prologue.

6. Why do you think the shopkeepers at the beginning of Chapter 2 accepted worthless currency in exchange for perfectly good bolts of cloth?

7. 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?

8. 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.

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

10. Describe Oskar Schindler's physical appearance.

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