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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?
(a) She was a nonstop talker.
(b) She never spoke to anyone unless she had to.
(c) She only spoke Dutch, a language the narrator does not know.
(d) Everything she said was a lie.

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) A member of a group of private citizens who patrol the U.S.'s southern border.
(d) An anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic publication.

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

4. When the narrator does not want to discuss politics when they are alone in his apartment, what does he ask Helga to ask him about instead?
(a) Music.
(b) Religion.
(c) Literature.
(d) Art.

5. Where does the narrator say he met Rudolf Hoess?
(a) In a bar in Berlin.
(b) On a train to Warsaw.
(c) At a New Year's Eve party.
(d) In the prison exercise yard.

6. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?
(a) By selling valuables he had stolen from Germans during the war.
(b) By selling chess sets he carves from wood.
(c) From the interest earned on an inheritance left to him by his parents.
(d) By writing articles for The White Christian Minuteman.

7. Arpad Kovacs says he joined the Nazi S.S. The S.S. is famous for being what?
(a) The most fanatical wing of Nazism.
(b) The group that cooperated with Allied forces to kill Hitler.
(c) The only branch of the Nazi party that allowed Jews in its ranks.
(d) A spy organization.

8. Where was the narrator born?
(a) New York City.
(b) Schenectady, New York.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Chicago.

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

10. Which of the following is NOT a symbol that the narrator had drawn in the dust of his windowpanes:
(a) A cross.
(b) A hammer and sickle.
(c) The Stars and Stripes.
(d) A swastika.

11. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) One.

12. What prompted the sudden death of August Krapptauer?
(a) Falling off a balcony.
(b) Stepping in front of Jones' limousine.
(c) Carrying luggage up several flights of stairs and apparently suffering a heart attack.
(d) Swallowing a capsule of cyanide.

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

14. 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?
(a) Prisoners return to work.
(b) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.
(c) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(d) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.

15. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Excrement.
(c) Rotten apples.
(d) Briquets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is George Kraft's real name?

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

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

5. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?

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