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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?
(a) Work will set you free.
(b) There is such a thing as life that is not worthy of life.
(c) You don't want to know.
(d) That which does not kill you will make you stronger.

2. Who withdraws the Zyklon B pellets to give them to the pharmacist?
(a) The patients.
(b) Odilo Unverdorben.
(c) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
(d) Uncle Pepi.

3. Why doesn't anyone at Schless-Hartheim know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
(a) The official account of the work at Auschwitz has not been published yet.
(b) He had changed his name so no one would know he was there.
(c) It has not happened yet.
(d) It is top secret.

4. Where are the patients stacked neatly?
(a) In the barracks.
(b) In the sprinkle rooms.
(c) In the ox carts.
(d) In the ovens.

5. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when he visits Auschwitz for the first time?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Thirteen.

6. How does the narrator feel about Odilo Unverdorben's father?
(a) He is happy about returning to a healthy, strong man.
(b) He cannot forgive Odilo's father for killing him.
(c) He looks forward to returning into the father's body as sperm.
(d) He is afraid that the father hates Odilo.

7. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?
(a) He is glad to see it in its peacetime prime.
(b) He misses its glorious days as a death camp.
(c) He misses the experiments he learned at Schless-Hartheim.
(d) He dreams about it being burned to the ground.

8. What does the narrator think the showers are for at Auschwitz?
(a) To calm the patients.
(b) To kill the prisoners.
(c) To bring the people to life.
(d) To purify the Aryan race.

9. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's baby?
(a) Irene.
(b) Inge.
(c) Marta.
(d) Eva.

10. What does Odilo Unverdorben dream about as a young child?
(a) The war.
(b) His mother.
(c) The man in the white coat.
(d) Colors and noises.

11. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father is going to kill him?
(a) By casting him out in an exorcism.
(b) By beating Odilo to death as an infant.
(c) By inseminating Odilo's mother.
(d) By giving Odilo a fatal case of pneumonia.

12. What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows?
(a) Cosmic irony.
(b) Dramatic irony.
(c) Tragic irony.
(d) Comic irony.

13. What does Odilo Unverdorben see at Auschwitz when he visits with his family?
(a) Old barracks and industrial structures.
(b) Sprinkle rooms and mass graves.
(c) Surgical instrument factories.
(d) The Holocaust Museum.

14. What does Herta know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
(a) She suggested Odilo work there herself.
(b) She does not know about it; Odilo keeps it secret.
(c) She approves of his work and experiments.
(d) She thinks that he is working at a children's hospital.

15. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?
(a) They are processed with fire and gas.
(b) They work for their freedom.
(c) They are processed with spare parts.
(d) They come to life with strong emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How successful does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's experiments are?

2. What would Herta do after Odilo Unverdorben would spend hours begging for her attention?

3. Why is the narrator sad as Odilo Unverdorben gets younger?

4. How does Odilo Unverdorben's assignment to Shless-Hartheim appear to the narrator?

5. How old is Herta when Odilo Unverdorben meets her?

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