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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?
(a) Prisoners return to work.
(b) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.
(c) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(d) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.

2. The narrator tells Epstein's mother that "auf wiedersehen" means "goodbye" in German, but she corrects him by telling him it more precisely means:
(a) Until we meet again.
(b) Go with God.
(c) Both hello and goodbye.
(d) Peace be upon you.

3. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?
(a) No brothers and seven older sisters.
(b) None.
(c) One twin brother who died as an infant.
(d) One brother and two sisters.

4. The Blue Fairy Godmother tells the narrator that to do his job right, he will have to:
(a) Kill his best friend.
(b) Commit high treason.
(c) Earn the trust of the leader of a white supremacist group.
(d) Convince everyone he is Jewish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What unique symbol is on Campbell's typewriter given to him in the Jerusalem prison?

2. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?

3. How are Resi and Helga related?

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

5. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?

(see the answer key)

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