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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 happens to Oskar Schindler at the end of 1941?
(a) His wife, Emilie, files for divorce.
(b) His mistress, Ingrid, leaves him.
(c) He is arrested for the first time.
(d) He buys a second factory.

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

3. Poldek Pfefferberg changes his profession from schoolteacher to what, in order to begin working for Schindler?
(a) Machine operator.
(b) Metal polisher.
(c) Bookkeeper.
(d) Enameler.

4. In Chapter 11, who does Schindler name as the plant manager of DEF?
(a) Abraham Bankier.
(b) Julius Madritsch.
(c) Alexander Bibertstein.
(d) Symche Spira.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. During which war does the action in this novel take place?

3. In the Prologue, what does Goeth refer to Schindler as?

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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 4 deals primarily with the SS Aktion in Kazimierz and gives some history of prior persecution of Jews. Describe one way Oskar Schindler mitigated the risks he took by warning the people in Buchheister of the coming Aktion.

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

3. 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?

4. 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.

5. Chapter 25 describes Oskar's arrangement of a tour of Plaszow by Babar and Sedlacek, complete with a miniature camera. Emalia is only recently established. Why would Oskar take such a risk?

6. In Chapter 5, Keneally mentions the Germans' "resettlement policy." What was meant by that term?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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