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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?
(a) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.
(b) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.
(c) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.
(d) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.

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

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

5. 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 Boy Scout motto.
(c) A song from the Brownies girls' club.
(d) The American Pledge of Allegiance.

6. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" album.
(c) The White Christian Minuteman.
(d) Hitler's Mein Kampf.

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

8. Why did Resi remove her mittens when she was sitting in the music room?
(a) Because the mittens made her skin itch.
(b) Because the narrator gave her a new pair.
(c) So she could lend them to a slave woman who was working outside in the cold.
(d) To pet her dog.

9. What is one thing that Heinz was willing to do for his motorcycle that he was not willing to do for his wife?
(a) Give up smoking.
(b) Stand in front of an advancing tank.
(c) Spend entire weekends together.
(d) Buy expensive accessories.

10. From whom did the narrator take the motorcycle?
(a) George Kraft.
(b) His father-in-law.
(c) Heinz Schildknecht.
(d) Resi Noth.

11. To what does the narrator compare Resi's dog?
(a) A rat.
(b) A pig.
(c) An amphibian.
(d) A human.

12. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?
(a) Her hair had become snowy white.
(b) She had gained a lot of weight.
(c) She suffered from dementia and did not know who he was.
(d) She was blind.

13. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?
(a) Working on a labor gang in the Ukraine.
(b) Working as an actress in Berlin.
(c) Working in a cigarette factory in Dresden.
(d) Working as an interpreter and file clerk in Siberian POW camp.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What made Lionel Jones a wealthy man?

3. What childish phrase does the Blue Fairy Godmother tell the narrator that he should not expect to hear for himself?

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

5. What prized possession does Werner Noth fear a slave woman will destroy due to carelessness?

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