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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 43-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the schoolteacher in the bomb shelter do to silence his hysterical wife?
(a) Knocks her out.
(b) Gets her to drink some vodka.
(c) Puts his socks on his hands and puts on a puppet show.
(d) Sings to her.

2. Which of the following is NOT a revelation that Mr. Noth, Helga's father, reveals to the narrator:
(a) He would have had the narrator shot if he found out he was a spy.
(b) Helga is not really his daughter.
(c) The narrator made him unashamed to be a Nazi.
(d) He had opposed the marriage between Helga and the narrator.

3. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?
(a) None.
(b) One brother and two sisters.
(c) No brothers and seven older sisters.
(d) One twin brother who died as an infant.

4. To the narrator, the imaginary lines of international borders are as unreal as . . .
(a) UFOs and space aliens.
(b) Elves and pixies.
(c) Elvis and the Beatles.
(d) Sasquatch and Yeti.

5. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?
(a) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.
(b) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.
(c) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.
(d) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?

2. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?

3. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?

4. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?

5. Who is waiting for the narrator when he returns to his ransacked home?

(see the answer key)

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