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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?
(a) New York.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Nuremberg.
(d) The Hague.

3. Where was the narrator born?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Schenectady, New York.
(d) New York City.

4. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?
(a) Escape from Europe when they had the chance.
(b) Fight back.
(c) Convert to Christianity.
(d) Help settle the new nation of Israel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?

2. Which characteristic does NOT describe Howard W. Campbell, Jr.'s father?

3. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?

4. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?

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

(see the answer key)

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