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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helga say is the reason she did not get in touch with the narrator when she learned of his whereabouts?
(a) She did not have enough money to send a telegram or even buy a stamp for a letter.
(b) She had hoped the narrator had built a new life.
(c) Her sister had lied to her and said that he wouldn't be interested in seeing her.
(d) She had taken another lover by then and did not want to hurt him.

2. 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 picture history of the First World War.
(c) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.
(d) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.

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

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

5. Friedmann is the director of what?
(a) The prison where Campbell is incarcerated.
(b) The Nazi S.S.
(c) The Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(d) The Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?

3. The narrator tells Epstein's mother that "auf wiedersehen" means "goodbye" in German, but she corrects him by telling him it more precisely means:

4. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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