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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 is one detail of Resi's post-war life that is true?
2. What does Lionel Jones claim his organization is doing that the G-man is not?
3. What does the narrator mean when he says, "alles kaput"?
4. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?
5. What does the narrator say is a "snaggle-toothed thought machine"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the narrator's encounter with Adolf Eichmann in the Tel Aviv jail.
2. Describe the encounter between Werner von Braun and the narrator when they meet in New York?
3. How does Resi Noth die and what is the reason?
4. Describe the narrator's surroundings when he regains consciousness after being beaten.
5. How did the narrator meet Werner von Braun and what detail does he recall from that meeting?
6. The patrolman the narrator meets outside his home is fascinated with the effects chemicals have on human behavior. What does the patrolman say are ways that chemicals affect human behavior and what are some examples he cites?
7. What does the narrator suggests happened to George Kraft's pipe?
8. What is the plot of "The Goblet"?
9. What inspires August Krapptauer to start a youth movement and what is its key aim?
10. Describe the schoolteacher's wife's behavior in the bomb shelter. How does her husband respond?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Adolf Eichmann plans to use the defense that he was just following orders and is, therefore, not personally responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. Discuss this defense and whether it is ever acceptable.
Essay Topic 2
Some of the younger characters in the novel, such as Dr. Epstein and the narrator's Israeli-born guard, think discussing what happened in the death camps pointless or irrelevant. Discuss whether these attitudes are healthy examples of people trying to get on with their lives and not be burdened by the past or a troubling example of living in denial.
Essay Topic 3
Consider the role ethics plays in the lives of the characters during and after the war. Do many of the characters behave ethically? Be sure to cite examples of situations where a character's behavior may have been different if he or she had been in a different situation.
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