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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the narrator think about expressing his affection for Herta?
2. What does the narrator think the very thin men are doing at the camps when they tip their heads back towards the sky strangely?
3. What does the narrator think of Odilo Unverdorben in his youth?
4. Which answer describes Odilo Unverdorben's German at the end of his time at Auschwitz?
5. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's baby?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Herta change when he arrives at Schless-Hartheim?
2. Describe Herta's feelings about Auschwitz.
3. How does the narrator's relationship with Herta progress?
4. What are the conditions the narrator finds when Odile Unverdorben arrives at Auschwitz?
5. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?
6. How is the narrator right about Odilo Unverdorben's personality as a young man?
7. The narrator is usually just stuck with his backward perspective. Describe a case where he creates his own explanations and has to explain things to himself.
8. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his mother.
9. How does the narrator's impression of the killings at Schless-Hartheim increase the reader's sense of sympathy for the people the Nazis killed there?
10. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's courtship of Herta.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Holocaust is almost impossible to represent in literature or film. Does this book succeed in giving you a sense of the horror and wrongness of what took place during the war? Where is the book most believable and effective? Where does it stir the reader's sympathies and feelings? Where does it leave the reader detached and unfeeling, apart from the action? Does the book deliberately try to overcome the reader's aversion to difficult material? Is the backwardness of the narration an effective method for getting the reader to read about something hard to bear? What other techniques does the author use for conveying difficult or painful information? Cite specific examples from the text in your answer.
Essay Topic 2
What would you have done if you were Odilo Unverdorben's age in Germany when the Nazis were coming to power? Given what you know about the progressively tighter restrictions on Jews' behavior, would you have followed along, or would you have kept yourself apart from the fascism, or would you have resisted it? Cite instances from the book of the kinds of choices you would have faced, and cite instances from your own experience as you discuss how you would have faced them.
Essay Topic 3
Babies are a recurring image in Time's Arrow. Cite three instances where babies appear and describe their significance in the context where they occur; then describe their symbolic significance. What qualities do they represent in Odilo's life? In the narrator's? In the other characters?
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