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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main reason the Iron Guard boys have their mothers alter their suits instead of going to a tailor?
(a) Most tailors (according to Jones) are Jews.
(b) The families cannot afford tailors.
(c) It is the only way women are allowed to participate in the group.
(d) The group has a strong "do-it-yourself" ethic.

2. With what American expression is the narrator not familiar when he first meets Frank Wirtanen?
(a) What's up, doc?
(b) Zip it.
(c) Takes one to know one.
(d) None of your beeswax.

3. How did the narrator say he ended up in Germany?
(a) His German wife missed her family and was homesick.
(b) He went there on a college work-study program.
(c) His father was transferred there because of work.
(d) He was working as a war correspondent for the New York Times.

4. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?
(a) The Commandant of Auschwitz.
(b) The director of the Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(c) The Nazi Minister of Propaganda.
(d) Howard Campbell's defense attorney.

5. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(b) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.
(c) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.
(d) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In a note, what does the garbage collector, Lazlo Szombathy, claim he knew how to do?

3. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?

4. What was the subject of a note Eichmann sends to the narrator when they are both in jail?

5. What is one detail of Resi's post-war life that is true?

(see the answer key)

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