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

2. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?
(a) The Hague.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Nuremberg.
(d) New York.

3. The narrator say his plays were medieval romances and as political as ____________.
(a) Chocolate éclairs.
(b) Crème Brûlée.
(c) Vanilla ice-cream.
(d) Apple pie.

4. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?
(a) Briquets.
(b) Excrement.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Rotten apples.

5. Friedmann is the director of what?
(a) The Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(b) The Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.
(c) The prison where Campbell is incarcerated.
(d) The Nazi S.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .

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

4. How did the narrator say he ended up in Germany?

5. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?

(see the answer key)

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