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Time's Arrow | Quiz

Martin Amis
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Time's Arrow | Quiz

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1)

The narrator knows that his life would end when? (from Chapter 3: Because I Am A Healer, Everything I Do Heals)

When John Young commits suicide.
At Auschwitz.
In the hospital.
At birth.
2)

How does Odilo Unverdorben's father look, when Odilo is a young child? (from Chapter 8: Because Ducks Are Fat)

Anxious and jittery.
Wasted, as if he is not eating enough.
Full of vitality and virility.
Jolly, carefree, and healthy.
3)

When does John Young sail for Europe? (from Chapter 4: You Do What You Do Best, Not What's Best To Do)

1948.
1945.
1917.
1982.
4)

What does the Immigration and Naturalization Service threaten to do? (from Chapter 3: Because I Am A Healer, Everything I Do Heals)

Revoke John Young's medical license.
Prosecute John Young for atrocities.
Charge John Young with adultery.
Revoke John Young's citizenship.
5)

When does Hamilton de Souza cease to talk, in the narrator's experience? (from Chapter 4: You Do What You Do Best, Not What's Best To Do)

When he takes the name Hamilton de Souza.
When he sails for Salerno, Italy.
When he meets with Father Duryea in the Vatican.
When he sails for Europe.
6)

In what condition is Auschwitz when the narrator thinks Odilo Unverdorben arrives there? (from Chapter 5: Here There Is No Why)

Thriving, with sweet smells in the air.
Dirty, with human feces everywhere.
Full of confidence in making human progress.
Functional place, but no one was speaking.
7)

What secret does the narrator know about Solingen? (from Chapter 8: Because Ducks Are Fat)

That it will be destroyed in the war.
That its inhabitants will be massacred.
That it will be the site of a death camp.
That it is Adolf Eichmann's birthplace.
8)

What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows? (from Chapter 8: Because Ducks Are Fat)

Comic irony.
Tragic irony.
Dramatic irony.
Cosmic irony.
9)

In what condition is John Young's body when he sails for Europe? (from Chapter 4: You Do What You Do Best, Not What's Best To Do)

He is thin from living in poverty.
He is fat and out of shape from living in luxury.
He is sick with apprehension about the voyage.
He is healthy with a good tan.
10)

How old is John Young when he sails for Europe? (from Chapter 4: You Do What You Do Best, Not What's Best To Do)

45.
21.
31.
78.
11)

How does the narrator look back at his own experience from the perspective of Odilo Unverdorben's time at Schless-Hartheim? (from Chapter 6: Multiply Zero By Zero And You Still Get Zero)

He wants to redeem his past failures by making better people.
He realizes that he has been living Odilo Unverdorben's life backwards.
He misses his work in the hospitals in America.
He sees Auschwitz as the high point of his life.
12)

What does the narrator look forward to in Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz? (from Chapter 5: Here There Is No Why)

The first signs of life in the people they created.
The sleep-like peace of the dead people.
The purification of the human body in fire.
The piles of gold and property.
13)

With whom does Hamilton de Souza meet at the Vatican? (from Chapter 4: You Do What You Do Best, Not What's Best To Do)

Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
Father Duryea.
Odilo Unverdorben.
"The Agent."
14)

What does Odilo Unverdorben's mother say when she meets him in the hospital? (from Chapter 7: She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not)

"Where am I?"
"You don't want to know."
"Here are the papers and money you asked for."
"I've been waiting for you."
15)

What kind of sense of humor does the narrator believe John Young has? (from Chapter 3: Because I Am A Healer, Everything I Do Heals)

Slapstick.
Sentimental.
Sarcastic.
Vicious.
16)

How long does Odilo Unverdorben work in the Waffen Secret Service? (from Chapter 6: Multiply Zero By Zero And You Still Get Zero)

Five months.
Four months.
Three months.
One month.
17)

How does Odilo Unverdorben behave in a crowd? (from Chapter 7: She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not)

He is follower.
He is a hooligan.
He is a leader.
He is an agitator.
18)

What does Odilo Unverdorben's wife think about the work Odilo is doing at the camp? (from Chapter 5: Here There Is No Why)

She loves him for his vision.
She admires his power to create.
She questions whether it is legal.
She approves of his hard work.
19)

What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth? (from Chapter 8: Because Ducks Are Fat)

He misses the experiments he learned at Schless-Hartheim.
He misses its glorious days as a death camp.
He is glad to see it in its peacetime prime.
He dreams about it being burned to the ground.
20)

What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's job? (from Chapter 8: Because Ducks Are Fat)

Secretary.
Nurse.
Real estate agent.
Milliner.
21)

Why are the people on the ship to America happy? (from Chapter 4: You Do What You Do Best, Not What's Best To Do)

They are looking forward to making a new start in Europe.
They are anxious to get away from the troubles in America.
They are going off to fight in the war.
They are fleeing the war-torn continent.
22)

What time does the station clock read at Treblinka when Odilo Unverdorben sees it? (from Chapter 6: Multiply Zero By Zero And You Still Get Zero)

13:27.
12:40.
1:04.
4:31.
23)

Who withdraws the Zyklon B pellets to give them to the pharmacist? (from Chapter 5: Here There Is No Why)

Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
The patients.
Odilo Unverdorben.
Uncle Pepi.
24)

What describes Odilo Unverdorben's sex life with his wife while he is working for the Waffen Secret Service? (from Chapter 6: Multiply Zero By Zero And You Still Get Zero)

They only make love when they think she might conceive a baby.
They make love all the time.
He is impotent.
He sleeps with prostitutes, not with his wife.
25)

How does the narrator feel about what John Young does for a living? (from Chapter 3: Because I Am A Healer, Everything I Do Heals)

He hates his cruelty.
He admires his kindness.
He is inspired by him.
He resents his expertise.
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