The Holocaust Schindlers List" Video Quiz

The Holocaust Schindlers List" Video Quiz

A Jewish _________, Itzhak Stern, assisted Oskar Schindler in running his Enamelware factory; he was responsible for the employment of the Jews.

		Doctor
		Lawyer
		Accountant
Question 2		5 / 5 points

In one scene, Schindler enters a _______, where many Jews, pretending to pray, were in fact trading in the black market.

		Synagogue
		Church
Question 3		5 / 5 points

Oskar Schindler met Jewish leaders in a ______, and made an oral contract with them to create a factory for pots and pans.

		Church
		Synagogue
		Car
Question 4		5 / 5 points

In the film, Schindler sits down with Stern and proposes a toast to the factory's success. With the Nazi destruction of Jews taking place outside of Schindler's factory and throughout Poland, Stern is not interested in a toast. What does Stern do?

		He breaks his glass
		He just lifts his glass
		He quickly drinks
Question 5		5 / 5 points

The name of Oskar Schindler's wife is _______.

		Pauli
		Bertha
		Emily
Question 6		5 / 5 points

Stern leads to one of the most joyful and sorrowful moments of the film - the hiring of _____________ as a machine-operator insistent on thanking Mr Schindler personally. "Of what use is ________ worker?" cried Schindler "he has valuable skills" replied Stern - "he's a metal press operator...very skilled."

		An old man
		A young boy
		An old one-armed man
Question 7		5 / 5 points

During the liquidation of the ghetto, in March 13, 1943, one Jewish family took diamonds from a hidden place and put them in ________.

		A jar with jam
		Bread
		The hem of a skirt
Question 8		5 / 5 points

Schindler risked his life in order to save Jews. It was a time when terror reigned. The Jews had been dehumanized in non-Jewish eyes by Nazi propaganda and brutality. Schindler was capable of empathy. His accidental viewing of the Aktion in the ________ ghetto had a profound impact upon him. The ability to feel the pain of another is a critical ingredient to altruistic behavior.

		Vilna
		Warsaw
		Krakow
Question 9		5 / 5 points

In Spielberg's black and white film, in June 1942, Schindler inadvertently witnessed an Aktion ("strikes" on the ghetto to round up Jews for deportation to the death camps) in the ghetto. Schindler's eye was drawn to a little Jewish girl dressed in a ____ coat who, alone, stood out from the mass of Jews being herded to the trains and to their death. The child is set apart from the crowd by the color _______. The Nazis murdered one and a half million children. .

		Blue
		Red
		Green
Question 10		5 / 5 points

Ralph Fiennes portrayed ________, the Nazi Commandant of the Plaszow forced labor camp, to whom, Schindler explains that true power comes not from control or the ability to kill, but the ability to forgive.

		Adolf Eichmann
		Joseph Goebbels
		Amon Goeth
Question 11		5 / 5 points

A women comes to Schindler and begs that he take her skilless, aged parents into his factory to save their lives. Schindler throws her out. But, later, he takes ________ and gives it to Stern to use to buy the lives of the two elderly parents.

		His lighter
		His pen
		His watch
Question 12		5 / 5 points

In the film, the Nazi commandant of the Plaszow forced labor camp describes Jewish people as "________" and as "rats." In this depiction of the Jews, Goeth is following the tenets of Nazi propaganda which were ceaselessly pounded into the minds of people in Nazi Germany and in the occupied territories. Reducing the Jews to these despicable images, the Nazis sought to dehumanize (or demonize) the Jewish people, to push them beyond the boundaries of human and moral obligation, to reduce them to the "other."

		Child-killers
		Vermin
		Usurers
Question 13		5 / 5 points

On September 4, 1944, as the Eastern Front crumbled and the Soviet Red Army approached Poland, the Nazis closed the Jewish camp at Schindler's factory. Determined to save his Jewish workers from extermination, Schindler sent the Schindlerjuden (Jews of Schindler) to a new factory in Brunnlitz, Czechoslovakia. The Schindlerjuden were transported by train to the new factory, but three hundred Jewish women were mistakenly routed to the death camp at _________.

		Auschwitz-Birkenau
		Chelmno
		Dachau
Question 14		5 / 5 points

To effect the rescue, Schindler had resorted to ______.

		Threats
		Kind requests
		Bribery
Question 15		5 / 5 points

The Jews who arrived at Schindler's new factory at Brunnlitz numbered over _______. Schindler also rescued an estimated 85 Jews who had been sent from Auschwitz-Birkenau to a nearby Nazi labor camp at Golleschau.

		Twenty thousand
		Ten thousand
		A thousand
Question 16		5 / 5 points

On May 8, 1945, the war in Europe ended. Before Oskar Schindler headed west in the direction of American forces, he received a gift from his grateful Jews: ________ made from gold fillings extracted from one of the grateful Jews. The ____ was inscribed with the Talmudic verse: "He who saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world."

		A ring
		A pen
		A pin
Question 17		5 / 5 points

On May 8, 1945, the war in Europe ended. A day later, the Schindlerjuden were liberated by a lone ________ officer on horseback, the vanguard of the _______ Red Army. The officer said, "You have been liberated by the ______ army. I don't know where you ought to go. Don't go east -- they hate you there. ...." (10 points)

		French
		British
		Soviet
Question 18		5/ 5 points

At the end of the movie, ALL the "Jews of Schindler" but one, put a _________ on his tomb. (10 points)

		Rose
		Stone
		Star of David