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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?
(a) Help settle the new nation of Israel.
(b) Escape from Europe when they had the chance.
(c) Fight back.
(d) Convert to Christianity.

2. What "gift" does Frank Wirtanen say that the narrator and George Kraft have in common?
(a) They can be many things at once and all sincerely.
(b) The things they did during the war don't bother them now.
(c) They are creative.
(d) They can live in any country anywhere and it would not matter because one place is as good as another.

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

4. The narrator claims he didn't really steal his friend's motorcycle, but . . .
(a) Accidentally backed over it with his car and dumped the motorcycle in the lake to hide the evidence.
(b) Pretended to steal it so his friend could collect the insurance money.
(c) Borrowed it for all eternity.
(d) Paid for it by leaving money in his friend's boot while he was sleeping.

5. What is one of the first things the narrator says after he wakes up from the beating?
(a) (To Resi) Who are you?
(b) I gotta stop drinking.
(c) Did somebody get the number of the bus that ran over me?
(d) I've joined the Hottentots!

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Lionel Jones kicked out of dental school?

2. 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?

3. Why do Resi's dog and Mrs. Noth have "fat" bellies?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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