Schindler’s List Quizzes

Schindler's List Quiz 1

By Lisa Femia · Edited by Meghan Joyce · Last reviewed October 15, 2012

1 How does the film open?

Hands lighting a candle

Oskar Schindler smoking a cigar

A Jewish couple on a train

A little girl singing
2 Where does the film predominantly take place?

Hungary

Germany

Poland

France
3 What kind of pin does Schindler wear on his lapel?

German flag pin

Moravian pin

Diamond-encrusted pin

Nazi Party pin
4 In the beginning of the film, what is Schindler's goal at the nightclub?

To ingratiate himself with Nazi officials

To seduce multiple dancers

To take photos for his collection

To get officers drunk and learn of top secret missions
5 Where does Schindler go to find Itzhak Stern?

A church

The Gestapo's office

The Judenrat

A bank
6 What type of factory does Schindler initially open?

Furniture

Munitions

Enamelware

Garment
7 Who becomes Schindler's black market contact?

Chaja Dresner

Marcel Goldberg

Poldek Pfefferberg

Itzhak Stern
8 What does the little girl yell at the Jews as they pass by to enter the ghetto?

Death to Jews!

Goodbye Jews!

Jews smell!

Go to Hell!
9 What position does Marcel Goldberg take in the ghetto?

Head of construction

Jewish Policeman

No position

Front Gate Guard
10 Who invests in Schindler's company?

Itzhak Stern alone

German businessmen

Nazi officials

Jewish businessmen
11 How did one acquire employment in Schindler's factory?

Age 35 and under

Friendship with the Schindler family

Work card saying he/she is an essential worker

Weight of 180 and over
12 Who begins forging documents to help Jews with employment?

Poldek Pfefferberg

Itzhak Stern

Rabbi Menasha Lewartow

Oskar Schindler
13 Who arrives in Krakow while Schindler is with a mistress?

Schindler's wife

Schindler's sister

Schindler's German mistress

Schindler's mother
14 Why does Emilie Schindler leave Krakow?

Schindler sends her away

Schindler tell her he is in love with another woman

Schindler is too focused on his work

Schindler cannot promise monogamy
15 Which worker does Itzhak Stern bring to see Schindler in his office?

Marcel Goldberg

Danka Dresner

A one-armed man

A young boy who talks too much
16 Who is the first person we see killed in the film?

The one-armed man

The little girl in the red coat

Itzhak Stern's mother

An unnamed old woman with a basket
17 How does Schindler rescue Stern from the train to Auschwitz?

Personally begs the conductor to stop the train

Tells the two young officials that he will send them to southern Russia

Storms the train with several attack dogs

Bribes an officer
18 Why is Stern put on the train to Auschwitz?

He forgot his work card at home

He wears glasses and those with poor eyesight were sent away

A Nazi official hates him

Accounting was deemed not essential
19 What happens to the baggage left by the Jewish people headed to Auschwitz?

It is emptied in a Nazi warehouse

It is sent to Auschwitz

It is sent as gifts to foreign officials

It is blown up
20 Why do the Jews seem moderately pleased with life in the ghetto?

Living in close quarters is essential to the Jewish faith

The food is better in the ghetto because there are more cooks

They do not have to ever see gentiles

The walls protect them from those who hate them
21 Who is the commander of the Plaszow work camp?

Regina Perlman

Amon Goeth

Oskar Schindler

Rudolph Hoss
22 Who is selected as Goeth's maid?

Chaja Dresner

Emilie Schindler

Helen Hirsch

Danka Dresner
23 Before what event does Goeth speak to his men about the historical importance of their actions?

Liquidation of the ghetto

The surrender of Germany

His execution

The health inspection
24 How do the Dresners hide their portable valuables prior to the liquidation of the ghetto?

Hold them under their tongue

Put them in a lock box under the floorboards

Stuff them in their pockets

Stuff them in bread morsels and eat them
25 For whom does the pharmacist prepare vials of poison?

The patients of the hospital

The Nazis

The children

His family

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