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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-9.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.
(b) Prisoners return to work.
(c) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(d) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.

2. Which city does the narrator say was "Hell" or "Purgatory" for him?
(a) New York.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Schenectady.

3. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?
(a) Abraham Epstein's mother.
(b) Major Frank Wirtanen.
(c) Helga Noth.
(d) Rudolph Hoess.

4. What is the narrator's "little Eden"?
(a) The view of Jerusalem from his prison window.
(b) His inlaws' estate near Berlin.
(c) His life with Helga.
(d) A private park where children play.

5. Arpad Kovacs says he joined the Nazi S.S. The S.S. is famous for being what?
(a) The most fanatical wing of Nazism.
(b) The only branch of the Nazi party that allowed Jews in its ranks.
(c) A spy organization.
(d) The group that cooperated with Allied forces to kill Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?

3. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?

4. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?

5. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?

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