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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arpad Kovacs was personally congratulated by __________, whom he would have killed had he known how important he was.
(a) General George S. Patton.
(b) Adolph Hitler.
(c) Adolph Eichmann.
(d) Winston Churchill.

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

3. What unique symbol is on Campbell's typewriter given to him in the Jerusalem prison?
(a) The yin and yang symbol.
(b) Twin lightning strokes that symbolized the Nazi S.S.
(c) A swastika.
(d) A Star of David.

4. Which city does the narrator say was "Hell" or "Purgatory" for him?
(a) New York.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Schenectady.

5. Which characteristic does NOT describe Howard W. Campbell, Jr.'s father?
(a) World War I veteran.
(b) Raised in Tennessee.
(c) Engineer for General Electric.
(d) Son of a Baptist minister.

6. 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) Art.
(b) Music.
(c) Religion.
(d) Literature.

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

8. What do the letters "W.H.U.B." stand for?
(a) Nothing. They are the call letters of a radio station.
(b) Western Hemisphere University of the Bible.
(c) Women Helping Underprivileged Brethren.
(d) White Heterosexuals United by Beliefs.

9. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?
(a) By writing articles for The White Christian Minuteman.
(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 selling valuables he had stolen from Germans during the war.

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

11. 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) A print of Picasso's Guernica.
(c) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.
(d) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.

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

13. What secret does Resi reveal to the narrator before he leaves for the front lines?
(a) That Helga had left the narrator for another man.
(b) That she is in love with him.
(c) That she knows that Helga is still alive.
(d) That she is pregnant with his baby.

14. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?
(a) Because of her bizarre behavior.
(b) Because of their differing views of the war.
(c) Because the narrator looked too much like his father, who had left her for a younger woman.
(d) Because his mother did not like Helga.

15. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?
(a) No brothers and seven older sisters.
(b) None.
(c) One brother and two sisters.
(d) One twin brother who died as an infant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What grim task does Werner Noth ask the narrator to do?

2. Where was the narrator born?

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

4. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?

5. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?

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