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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 is the narrator's "little Eden"?
(a) A private park where children play.
(b) His life with Helga.
(c) His inlaws' estate near Berlin.
(d) The view of Jerusalem from his prison window.

2. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?
(a) Because of their differing views of the war.
(b) Because of her bizarre behavior.
(c) Because the narrator looked too much like his father, who had left her for a younger woman.
(d) Because his mother did not like Helga.

3. 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 working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(c) The last train full of Jewish prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz.
(d) The last time the crematories at Auschwitz were emptied of bodies before Allied forces freed the camp.

4. What did the narrator receive in the mail after his address was published in the Minuteman?
(a) A notice from the IRS for unpaid taxes.
(b) A lot of mail from supporters.
(c) A letter from Helga.
(d) A lot of hate mail.

5. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?
(a) Says the names of two women and talks about a city.
(b) Sleepwalks.
(c) Cries.
(d) Snores and grinds his teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?

2. Which of the following is NOT a revelation that Mr. Noth, Helga's father, reveals to the narrator:

3. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?

4. Arpad Kovacs was personally congratulated by __________, whom he would have killed had he known how important he was.

5. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?

(see the answer key)

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