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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 fact does the narrator never reveal to his wife?
(a) That he had cheated on her.
(b) That he was part Jewish.
(c) That he was a spy.
(d) That he was born in the United States.

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

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

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

5. 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 his mother did not like Helga.
(d) Because the narrator looked too much like his father, who had left her for a younger woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's "little Eden"?

2. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?

3. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?

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

5. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Arpad Kovacs response when he reads the contents of one of Campbell's radio broadcasts?

2. Why was Lionel Jones sent to prison (before he became acquainted with the narrator), and based on what evidence?

3. 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?

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

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

6. Describe Resi's reaction to the news that her dog must be killed.

7. Describe the Free American Corps. What was its purpose and how successful was it?

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

9. What is Abraham Epstein's mother hoping to prove when she speaks to the narrator in German?

10. Describe the narrator's and Helga's careers before the war begins, and how do they support each other in their careers?

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