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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben feels about Jews when he is in medical school?
(a) He wants to kill them.
(b) He likes them.
(c) He pities them and wants to save them.
(d) He thinks they cause a lot of problems.

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

3. Where would Odilo Unverdorben and Herta secretly kiss while they were courting?
(a) In the train station
(b) In the office where she worked.
(c) In the stairway.
(d) In her parents' house.

4. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father would take away Odilo's pain?
(a) By massaging the place that hurt.
(b) By kissing the place that hurt.
(c) With a swat of his hand.
(d) By applying an ice pack.

5. How old is the narrator when he realizes that he would soon be born?
(a) Three years old.
(b) Eighteen months old.
(c) Two years old.
(d) One year old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's mother will do when Odilo returns into her body?

2. On which front does Odilo Unverdorben serve in the Waffen Secret Service?

3. Where does the narrator think Herta's letters come from?

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

5. Where does the narrator think that the Waffen Secret Service gets the ashes with which to make people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's courtship of Herta.

2. How does the narrator's relationship with Herta progress?

3. Describe the similarities and differences between Odilo Unverdorben and Uncle Pepi.

4. How does Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Herta change when he arrives at Schless-Hartheim?

5. How does the narrator describe the Jews' experiences at Auschwitz?

6. Name four methods Odilo Unverdorben sees the Germans use to "process" the Jews?

7. What is the narrator's last experience before he dies?

8. How is the narrator right about Odilo Unverdorben's personality as a young man?

9. What are the conditions the narrator finds when Odile Unverdorben arrives at Auschwitz?

10. Describe Herta's feelings about Auschwitz.

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