View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arpad Kovacs says he joined the Nazi S.S. The S.S. is famous for being what?
(a) The most fanatical wing of Nazism.
(b) The only branch of the Nazi party that allowed Jews in its ranks.
(c) The group that cooperated with Allied forces to kill Hitler.
(d) A spy organization.

2. How are Resi and Helga related?
(a) They are not related; Resi uses Helga's family name to trick the narrator.
(b) They are mother and daughter.
(c) They are sisters.
(d) They are brother and sister.

3. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.
(b) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(c) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.
(d) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.

4. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?
(a) The Nazi Minister of Propaganda.
(b) The director of the Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(c) The Commandant of Auschwitz.
(d) Howard Campbell's defense attorney.

5. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?

3. With what American expression is the narrator not familiar when he first meets Frank Wirtanen?

4. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?

5. What is the narrator's "little Eden"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 348 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample