View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fact does the narrator never reveal to his wife?
(a) That he was a spy.
(b) That he was born in the United States.
(c) That he was part Jewish.
(d) That he had cheated on her.

2. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?
(a) The last time the crematories at Auschwitz were emptied of bodies before Allied forces freed the camp.
(b) A musical measure in an opera written in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
(c) The last train full of Jewish prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz.
(d) The working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.

3. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.
(b) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.
(c) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(d) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.

4. Where does the narrator say he met Rudolf Hoess?
(a) In the prison exercise yard.
(b) At a New Year's Eve party.
(c) On a train to Warsaw.
(d) In a bar in Berlin.

5. How are Resi and Helga related?
(a) They are brother and sister.
(b) They are mother and daughter.
(c) They are sisters.
(d) They are not related; Resi uses Helga's family name to trick the narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?

2. The narrator tells Epstein's mother that "auf wiedersehen" means "goodbye" in German, but she corrects him by telling him it more precisely means:

3. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?

4. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?

5. Arpad Kovacs was personally congratulated by __________, whom he would have killed had he known how important he was.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 413 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample