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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who informed the Minuteman of the narrator's whereabouts?
(a) George Kraft.
(b) Lionel Jones.
(c) Bernard O'Hare.
(d) Resi Noth.

4. When the narrator was serving as an American agent, how did he send coded information out of Germany?
(a) In the form of special mannerisms, pauses, coughs, and stumbles during his broadcasts.
(b) By using acrostics, where the reader would look at the first letter of each word in a newspaper article.
(c) By drawing cartoons that revealed a secret message when folded a certain way.
(d) By writing letters to his Native American grandmother in the Navajo language.

5. 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) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.
(c) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.
(d) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arpad Kovacs was personally congratulated by __________, whom he would have killed had he known how important he was.

2. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?

3. What does the narrator mean when he claims, "I became what I am today and what I will always be, a stateless person"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the leather strap that Bernard Mengel mentions?

2. Where and in what kind of place does the narrator live while he is in hiding?

3. What reason does Andor Gutman give for thinking that the position of "corpse-carrier" would be a good job?

4. Describe Heinz Schildknecht's wife as the narrator portrays her. Why does he not like her?

5. What is the gist of Bernard O'Hare's letter to the narrator?

6. Describe the Western Hemisphere University of the Bible. What kind of courses were taught and how could one earn a degree there?

7. What effect does the narrator's broadcast have on Werner Noth?

8. How does information regarding the narrator's whereabouts end up in The White Christian Minuteman?

9. How and where does the narrator learn the lurid details of his father-in-law's death and what does the narrator find troubling about the article, besides the fact that it is about the death of someone he knows?

10. Explain why the narrator thinks Helga is "amazingly well-preserved."

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