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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator is a native of which country?
(a) Israel.
(b) The United States.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Germany.

3. Friedmann is the director of what?
(a) The prison where Campbell is incarcerated.
(b) The Nazi S.S.
(c) The Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(d) The Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.

4. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?
(a) Boxing.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Golf.
(d) Ping-pong.

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

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

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

8. How are Resi and Helga related?
(a) They are not related; Resi uses Helga's family name to trick the narrator.
(b) They are sisters.
(c) They are mother and daughter.
(d) They are brother and sister.

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

10. What is the surprise that Rev. Jones and his entourage present to the narrator?
(a) The FBI.
(b) A pair of Broadway producers who want to produce his play about Nazi Germany.
(c) Israeli agents.
(d) A woman who appears to be his wife.

11. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?
(a) Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
(b) Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech.
(c) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
(d) His own "Do you want total war?" speech.

12. The narrator tells Epstein's mother that "auf wiedersehen" means "goodbye" in German, but she corrects him by telling him it more precisely means:
(a) Both hello and goodbye.
(b) Peace be upon you.
(c) Until we meet again.
(d) Go with God.

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

14. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?
(a) Cries.
(b) Says the names of two women and talks about a city.
(c) Snores and grinds his teeth.
(d) Sleepwalks.

15. What is the reason the magazine article states that the slave laborers hanged Werner Noth?
(a) For the satisfaction of hanging someone important.
(b) As just desserts for all the hangings he had ordered as chief of police.
(c) Because the Russians ordered them to do it.
(d) Because of the severe beating he gave the woman who dropped a vase.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?

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

4. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?

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

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