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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. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?
(a) She was a nonstop talker.
(b) Everything she said was a lie.
(c) She never spoke to anyone unless she had to.
(d) She only spoke Dutch, a language the narrator does not know.

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) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.
(b) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.
(c) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.
(d) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.

3. How old is Resi Noth when the narrator leaves for the front lines?
(a) 21 years old.
(b) A newborn infant.
(c) 10 years old.
(d) 45 years old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a symbol that the narrator had drawn in the dust of his windowpanes:

2. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?

3. What is the White Christian Minuteman?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What frequently occurs in the little park outside the narrator's window that would often get his attention, and what is the significance of this?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the narrator's mother and what is the "queer demonstration" she gives?

8. 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?

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

10. What does Robert Wilson, the Black Fuehrer of Harlem, mean when he says that he and the narrator were on "opposite" sides? Provide some explanation as to why Wilson chose the side he did.

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