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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator receive in the mail after his address was published in the Minuteman?

2. Where does Helga get the money to be able to reunite with the narrator?

3. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?

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

5. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe The White Christian Minuteman and what is his reaction to it arriving in his mailbox?

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

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

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

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

6. Why had Father Keeley been "unfrocked"?

7. Briefly explain the "Nation of Two" the narrator frequently mentions. What is its original meaning and what does it signify to the narrator personally?

8. Describe the narrator's lifestyle while he is in hiding. How does he live and from where does he get his income?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mother Night was originally published in 1961 and is set in that time and in earlier times of the narrator's life, especially World War II. Discuss whether a novel written decades ago relating to events that happened decades before that is relevant today.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think the narrator decides to commit suicide once the fact that he was an American spy is verified and he is no longer wanted for war crimes? Discuss reasons you believe the narrator would prefer to end his life rather than begin a new life as a free man.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the process Howard Campbell goes through from hiding from prosecution to wanting to face punishment for his crimes.

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