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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 had cheated on her.
(c) That he was part Jewish.
(d) That he was born in the United States.

2. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?
(a) A picture history of the First World War.
(b) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.
(c) A print of Picasso's Guernica.
(d) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.

3. What is the war crime that Howard Campbell stands accused of?
(a) Spying on America.
(b) Delivering orders of Cyklon-B to the death camps.
(c) Promoting Nazi propaganda.
(d) Mistreating Allied POWs at a prison camp.

4. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?
(a) From a letter the narrator had sent to an American Legion post.
(b) From the attorney who handles the probate for the narrator's parents' will.
(c) From Mrs. Epstein.
(d) From the Minuteman magazine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?

2. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?

3. What does the narrator mean when he claims, "I became what I am today and what I will always be, a stateless person"?

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

5. How are Resi and Helga related?

(see the answer key)

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