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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.
(b) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.
(c) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.
(d) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.

2. What is the White Christian Minuteman?
(a) The name of an old Boston tavern.
(b) The name of a marble statue in front of a historic church.
(c) An anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic publication.
(d) A member of a group of private citizens who patrol the U.S.'s southern border.

3. How did the narrator lose Helga?
(a) She left him for another man.
(b) Russian troops seized the area where she was entertaining the troops and she is presumed dead.
(c) She was accused of spying for the Americans and was sent to a prison camp.
(d) She died giving birth to their first child.

4. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?
(a) The Serenity Prayer.
(b) The American Pledge of Allegiance.
(c) A song from the Brownies girls' club.
(d) The Boy Scout motto.

5. 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.

6. What does the narrator do with his broom?
(a) Gives it to his neighbor's daughter who wanted to dress as a witch for Halloween.
(b) Carves the handle with his wood-carving set.
(c) Hits an attacker over the head with it.
(d) Offers to sweep the hallways of his building in exchange for rent.

7. Where does Helga get the money to be able to reunite with the narrator?
(a) Lottery winnings.
(b) Donations from the narrator's supporters.
(c) A bounty hunter looking for the narrator.
(d) A life insurance settlement from her deceased parents.

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

9. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He looked Jewish in his photographs.
(c) "Abraham" sounds like a Jewish name.
(d) He was sympathetic to non-whites.

10. Which of the following is NOT a revelation that Mr. Noth, Helga's father, reveals to the narrator:
(a) He would have had the narrator shot if he found out he was a spy.
(b) Helga is not really his daughter.
(c) The narrator made him unashamed to be a Nazi.
(d) He had opposed the marriage between Helga and the narrator.

11. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?
(a) From a letter the narrator had sent to an American Legion post.
(b) From Mrs. Epstein.
(c) From the Minuteman magazine.
(d) From the attorney who handles the probate for the narrator's parents' will.

12. What prized possession does Werner Noth fear a slave woman will destroy due to carelessness?
(a) A Gutenberg Bible.
(b) A Rembrandt painting.
(c) A blue vase.
(d) A grandfather clock.

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

14. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?
(a) A picture history of the First World War.
(b) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.
(c) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.
(d) A print of Picasso's Guernica.

15. What does Heinz Schildknecht love above all else?
(a) His wife.
(b) His motorcycle.
(c) His career.
(d) His country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator notice about Lionel Jones' hand?

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

3. Where does the narrator say he met Rudolf Hoess?

4. What fact does the narrator never reveal to his wife?

5. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?

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