1. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?
(a) "Abraham" sounds like a Jewish name.
(b) He looked Jewish in his photographs.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was sympathetic to non-whites.

2. What does the narrator notice about Lionel Jones' hand?
(a) He always wears a glove on one, but not the other.
(b) It glitters with rings like the hand of a prince.
(c) It is soft and smooth as if Jones had never done any honest labor in his entire life.
(d) It is missing two fingers.

3. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?
(a) Inventor.
(b) Failed dental student.
(c) Owner of a fake divinity school.
(d) Radio talk show host.

4. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?
(a) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.
(b) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.
(c) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.
(d) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.

5. Who informed the Minuteman of the narrator's whereabouts?
(a) Bernard O'Hare.
(b) George Kraft.
(c) Resi Noth.
(d) Lionel Jones.

Short Answer 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?

2. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?

3. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?

4. Comparing himself to Lionel Jones, the narrator insists that he is neither __________ nor __________.

5. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?

(see the answer key)

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