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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Noth die?
(a) Burned to death when his house is bombed.
(b) In a death camp.
(c) Hanged by slave laborers.
(d) Murdered by the assistant chief of police who wanted his job.

2. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?
(a) Rudolph Hoess.
(b) Helga Noth.
(c) Abraham Epstein's mother.
(d) Major Frank Wirtanen.

3. What grim task does Werner Noth ask the narrator to do?
(a) Give him a ride to Berlin so he can attend his best friend's funeral.
(b) Shoot Resi's dog.
(c) Help him compose an eloquent suicide note.
(d) Burn the carcass of his favorite horse before slave laborers begin to feast upon it.

4. What made Lionel Jones a wealthy man?
(a) The life insurance and estates from his dead wives.
(b) The success of two products he invented.
(c) Sales of his newspaper.
(d) His chain of funeral homes.

5. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?
(a) A rat-infested attic apartment in Greenwich Village.
(b) A detached house in a working-class neighborhood in Queens.
(c) A brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
(d) An upscale Manhattan condo.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?

4. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .

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

(see the answer key)

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