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

2. Which country did Robert, the limousine driver, support during the war?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) Japan.

3. What is the White Christian Minuteman?
(a) An anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic publication.
(b) A member of a group of private citizens who patrol the U.S.'s southern border.
(c) The name of a marble statue in front of a historic church.
(d) The name of an old Boston tavern.

4. What is one thing that Heinz was willing to do for his motorcycle that he was not willing to do for his wife?
(a) Stand in front of an advancing tank.
(b) Buy expensive accessories.
(c) Spend entire weekends together.
(d) Give up smoking.

5. What is the war crime that Howard Campbell stands accused of?
(a) Spying on America.
(b) Promoting Nazi propaganda.
(c) Delivering orders of Cyklon-B to the death camps.
(d) Mistreating Allied POWs at a prison camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did the narrator take the motorcycle?

2. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?

3. How did the narrator lose Helga?

4. Where was the narrator born?

5. Who informed the Minuteman of the narrator's whereabouts?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Of what does the Haifa Institute consider Heinz Schildknecht to be an expert and why?

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

5. What happened to members of the Sonderkommando when their job was done? How were they replaced?

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

7. What is Goebbels' response to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

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

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

10. 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?

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