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Schindler's List Fin
Final Test
Question | Answer |
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On what date did General List's armored divisions take Krakow | September 6, 1939 |
What characteristics of Krakow did Schindler pinpoint that would make the town a boomtown of the new regime | Railroad junction, modest industries |
What was Schindler's hometown | Zwittau |
For what profession was Schindler educated | engineer |
What religion did the Schindler family practice | Catholic |
What was Oskar Schindler's favorite sport as a young man | Racing motorcycles |
On what grounds did Schindler abhor military life | discomfort |
What could the women of Schindler's family see about him and his father that he could not see for himself | That they were brothers separated by the accident of paternity |
Who were the two people whose opinions Schindler most respected | Emilie and his father |
Why did Emilie believe Hitler would not succeed | She believed he would be punished for making himself God |
What was Stern's procedure for dealing with unsuitable currency | He burned it |
How did he write off these transactions | Free samples |
What was Stern's first impression of Schindler | That he was not a manageable German |
By government edict, what was Stern obligated to tell Schindler | That he was a Jew |
How did Stern believe the Jewish race would survive | By petitioning, by buying off authorities |
In what Polish company was Schindler interested | Rekord – an enamelware factory |
What other Krakow Jew met Schindler that autumn | Leopold Pfefferberg |
What had been Pfefferberg's job before he was in the army | High school P.E. teacher |
How did Pfefferberg support himself after his escape once the Jewish schools closed | Selling jewelry on the black market |
Of what disease did his friends say Schindler suffered | generosity |
What kind of officers was Schindler able to sniff out | Sympathetic ones |
The Einsatz soldiers knew that a struggle for national existence meant what | Race warfare |
What did Special Chivalrous Duty mean | The hot barrel of a gun |
What would replace the Madagascar solution | Zyklon B |
Who was Schindler's Polish mistress | Victoria Klonowska |
Who was Schindler's German mistress | Ingrid |
How many members sat on the Judenrat | 24 |
How many members are there, at any given point in time, of the Righteous of the Nations | 36 |
What was Schindler by nature | A payer |
Other than Schindler who was considered to be a sympathizer | Julius Madritsch |
What had the main work for the Judenrat become | Drawing up lists for forced labor for transfer to the camps |
What did Schindler give Klonowska for Christmas | poodle |
What did Schindler give Emilie and Ingrid for Christmas | jewelry |
What often happened to pretty, brilliant daughters of city Jewry as they emerged from lecture halls | Their faces were slashed with razors |
What did the ghetto represent | Stasis instead of flux |
What did Madritsch's factory produce | uniforms |
What was Stern's objective for having Schindler and Madritsch employ more Jews | To give the ghetto economic permanence |
What was the main thing Schindler wanted to relate to his new workers | They were safe; if they worked with him they would live through the war |
Who were Schindler's allies against his father | Emilie, his aunts, his sister |
What excuse did Schindler give his friends for not being in uniform | Essential industry |
What about Pfefferberg made it easy for him to move around easily outside the ghetto | Aryan looks |
Who was the final authority for all Jewish matters in Krakow | SS Oberfuherer Julian Scherner |
What did Scherner favor over killing the Jews | Working them |
What event made Schindler know that the Madagascar Plan was finished | Germany’s invasion of Russia |
Why did Herr Schindler believe Hitler wasn't meant to last | He thought America would come down on him in the end |
How many names did Schindler give Klonowska to call the first time he was arrested | 4 |
What was Schindler sure his first arrest concerned | Black market |
What did the Dresner boys nickname the child that moved in with them | Redcap |
In reference to the child who moved in with the Dresners - what was the child's real name | Genia |
In reference to the child who moved in with the Dresners - with what relative did the child behave like a child | Uncle, Idek Schindel |
Czurda told Schindler that the Jews no longer had a future and that it was no longer old-fashioned Jew hate. What was it now | policy |
What color new sticker did the ghetto people hope the German clerks would attach to their identity cards | blue |
How old was Olek Rosner when he escaped the ghetto | 6 |
What medicine, other than cyanide, did the ghetto hospital have | water |
What did Toffel know that Schindler did not | procedures in the ghetto were getting more intense |
What were those lined up for the cattle cars at the rail station still convinced of the value of | passive and orderly response |
In "Chapter 14" where was Schindler's missing employee | already on a cattle car |
Late the previous year Schindler had seen an invitation for bids for the construction of something that now seemed very relevant. What was the bid for construction of | crematoria |
What had Schindler's workers failed to pick up from the old Polish Savings Bank | their blue stickers |
What did the cattle cars tell those still left at the station | "We are all beasts together." |
Why were the elderly being taken to the Wieliczka salt mines | to seal them into unused chambers |
Who was in the line of women and children being marched out of the ghetto in "Chapter 15" that caught Schindler's attention | Red Genia |
In reference to the Aktion witnessed by Schindler in "Chapter 15," what was even worse if there was no shame | it had official sanction |
In "Chapter 15" why were the SS men permitting witnesses | the witnesses would perish, too |
What special weight did Schindler place on the day he witnessed the Aktion in "Chapter 15" | he would do everything he could to defeat the system |
What brought Bachner home | The pull of the known |
From Bachner’s testimony how many people could be exterminated in a day at Belzec | 3000 |
The resistance claimed that how many more was the capacity at Auschwitz II | 10,000 |
Who else besides Schindler considered himself a potential witness | Bosko |
How many did Bosko want to save | everyone |
Where did he hide the money | In the bottom of a false-bottomed suitcase |
Where did he ask Schindler to go | Budapest |
Who was it supposed that had submitted Schindler’s name for the post of righteous person | Stern, Ginter, Biberstein |
Why did the SS have four jewelers brought to the basement of the old Technical Academy | To classify confiscated jewelry |
What did they find when they got there | Racks full of suitcases and briefcases and wooden crates |
Where were the crates they completed being sent | To Himmler in Berlin |
According to Schindler once the body fat is gone what does the body begin to work on | The brain |
What was in favor of the labor camps | They lacked the technical apparatus for methodical slaughter |
What does Schindler think of Schmidt | He is a thief |
What does Schmidt get that Schindler does not want | A percentage of the occupation money |
As Schindler was on his way back from Budapest, who was on his way to Lublin to take command of Plaszow | Amon Goeth |
What could both of Goeth’s former wives have testified to about his behavior | He was physically abusive |
What kind of man did Goeth consider himself | sensitive |
What did Goeth remark when Kunde showed him the remains of the Jewish cemetery | They won’t have to go far to be buried |
What would the synagogue mortuary become | Camp stable |
To Goeth what would the fences be rather than an essential precaution | A mental comfort for the prisoners |
For what would recycled Jewish clothing be used | Sent to bombed out families in Germany |
For what would the “Polish defaced” gravestones be used | Interior roads |
How much did each of the trolleys of limestone weigh | 6 tons |
How was the limestone hauled | Teams of women dragging on cables set on either side of the rock truck |
How had Goeth impressed upon the men of the camp what the full terms of their labor were | He performed a summary execution |
What did Diana Reiter not know about Goeth | That he hated her the worst |
What was the only chance of the others | Prompt and anonymous labor |
Among men like Goeth, the word gratitude did not have an abstract meaning. Gratitude was a __________. | payoff |
What did Schindler tell the Jews remaining in hiding in the ghetto about hiding the night before the final Aktion | They should not try hiding unless they were sure of the hiding place |
What was significant about the last morning of the ghetto | It was Shabbat |
According to Stern, Plaszow was a labor institution; it wasn’t like Belzec where they made death like _____ made _____. | Henry Ford , cars |
How did Pfefferberg and his wife plan to escape | sewer system |
Every morning Goethe stepped out on his balcony and did what? This became a ritual at the labor camp. | Murder a prisoner at random |
How often were the Ukrainian guards at Emalia switched | Every 2 days |
Why was Goeth drawn to Rabbi Levartov | He was a man of presence |
After arriving at Emalia, what did Schindler arrange for Levartov to do that, at first, the rabbi thought Schindler was kidding him about | Prepare for Shabbat |
When Goeth, during an inspection of the enamel works, directed that this bodyguard execute Lamus, what price did Schindler pay for the man to be spared | vodka |
What qualified the brothers Danziger to be qualified above all for execution | Their orthodox aura |
When the young boy was to be hanged what happened when the support was taken out from under him | Rope broke |
What did the dentist from Budapest and Schindler decide was making Goeth unreasonable | Bad liquor |
Every night the women in the barracks went to sleep listening to someone play what music | Brahm’s “Lullaby” |
What was to be the signal should Stern think there was something these two should see | He would tie his shoe |
What did one of the men carry with him that could have gotten them all shot | Miniature camera |
What was used to transport the dead to the woods | Bloody wheelbarrows |
The Jews in Schindler’s camp thanked God that Schindler was kinder to them than to _____. | his wife |
How much money coming in from the resistance did Schindler keep for himself | none |
What was an immediate ticket to Auschwitz | pregnancy |
What is ODESSA | The postwar secret society of former SS men |
Where did Titsch hide his reels | Buried in a small park in Vienna |
During 1943 how many Wehrmacht uniforms did Madritsch produce | Better than 20, 000 |
Why did Goeth keep his revolver lying at his elbow during his manicures | In case the manicurist nicked him |
What device did Oskar use to warn the prisoners when an SS officer demanded to go inside the factory | bell |
How did courting begin | With permission of elders |
What did the violinist hope the effect of his playing of the song would be | The SS man’s suicide |
What happened to the status of Plaszow | It was reclassified as a concentration camp |
At the Farber factory in Buna what did they do with the bodies of the starved | Throw them into cable ditches with the cables and cover them with cement |
Because of Plaszow’s new status, what changed with the fences | They were electrified |
How did prisoners arrange contact between each other | Code tunes, whistles |
Who officiated at the marriage of Josef and Rebecca | Josef’s mother |
The sirens sounded in the camp for what reason | Three young Zionists escaped in a truckload of product |
What excuse did Josef give for being out of his bunk | diarrhea |
Why were the Rosners immune from Goeth’s wrath | Musical talent |
Why did the Waffen SS dynamite the chambers and crematoria at the Treblinka, Sobibor, and Balzac | To leave no recognizable trace |
Why did the execution of the Spira family shock Oskar | It showed that there was no obedience or obeisance a Jew could make to guarantee survival |
Whom did Oskar stress in particular when Stern questioned Schindler’s ability to get all the Jews out of Plaszow | Stern |
What about Mietek Pemper would bring about the hanging of Goeth | Photographic memory |
How much air per person was to be allowed in the barracks | 3 cubic meters |
How had the SS physician, Dr. Blancke, rid the prison of the chronically ill | He injected them with benzene |
What did the women rub on their cheeks to give the appearance of health | Red cabbage |
What saved some of the children in the camp | They had never registered |
Why were the SS wary of the spaces in the rafters | They feared typhus, lice, rats |
During the railcar situation Goeth realized that Oskar was not so much reckless anymore but what | possessed |
What did Oskar and Garde listen to the radio all night long hoping to hear | Death of Hitler |
From what disease did Goeth suffer by this time | Liver disease |
For whom did Goeth want a space left at the end of his list of those executed for insurgency | An elderly man who had let it be known he had a store of diamonds hidden outside the camp |
In Oskar’s and Goeth’s game of blackjack, when Goeth began to lose heavily, what variation on the betting did Oskar suggest | They bet people |
Whose name was the first on Schindler’s list | Helen Hirsch |
What was it worth to be on Schindler’s list | everything |
What did Oskar take with him to his meeting with Rash to help secure the Brno front | A diamond |
How many names were on Schindler’s preparatory list | 1.000 |
Where is a copy of the list today | Yad Vashem |
With what did Pfefferberg buy his and Mila’s way onto the list | vodka |
Who had come to live with Schindler | Emilie |
According to Hoss, how many people could be gassed in Auschwitz each day if the system was working well | 9,000 |
What happened to most of those left after the gassing stopped | They were shot |
What happened to all the crematoria workers | They were shot |
At Schindler’s camp what became the prisoners’ vengeance | Slow work |
Why was the new commandant looking for children in the camps | For Dr. Mengele’s experiments |
Other than being a hazard to health, why was typhus feared at Brinnlitz | It was reason to close the camp |
What did the factory at Brinnlitz produce | nothing |
What did Schindler do to the inspector who claimed he could not be bribed by Schindler | Oskar tripped him on the stairs; the man fell, split open his head, and broke his leg |
Why did Schindler ask for 30 more workers | Simply because it was 30 more souls |
Why did Feigenbaum father and son count the steps from Brinnlitz to where they buried Janka | So they could find her body after the war |
For the Brinnlitz prisoners what was the one way left to restore humanity | ritual |
What gift did the prisoners present Schindler with on the night of final peace | A ring; “He who saves a single life saves the world entire,” a Talmudic verse |
At what moment did Schindler become dependent on the prisoners for gifts | The moment he put on the ring |
How did Schindler and Emilie dress when they left | In prison stripes |
How many prisoners volunteered to go with the Schindlers | 8 |
Why would the Schindlers’ Mercedes not start | Someone, afraid of their departure, had cut the wires |
What did some of the Brinnlitz prisoners do to the Kapo from Gross-Rosen | Hanged him |
Why did the Brinnlitz prisoners hang typhus signs on the wire | To scare away the SS |
How many Russians were in the group what liberated the camp | 1 |
Why did Richard Horowitz become hysterical at playgrounds | The swing frames reminded him of what he had witnessed |
Where had the prisoners traveling with the Schindlers hope to take them | Switzerland |