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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Multiply Zero By Zero And You Still Get Zero.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Irene saying the first time the narrator hears her voice?
(a) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows his true identity.
(b) She is telling Tod Friendly she loves him.
(c) She is telling Tod Friendly goodbye.
(d) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows about his affairs with other women.

2. What does the narrator think always happens to the attraction Tod Friendly feels for women?
(a) It gets stronger until they find out about his past.
(b) It never gets strong enough that he speaks to them.
(c) It fades away in time.
(d) It gets stronger until Tod Friendly asks them to sleep over.

3. Where does the narrator think that the Waffen Secret Service gets the ashes with which to make people?
(a) From the earth.
(b) From Poland.
(c) From the ovens at Auschwitz.
(d) From people's families.

4. How does Hamilton de Souza pay the old Spanish man?
(a) German deutsch marks.
(b) US dollars.
(c) French francs.
(d) Gold ingots.

5. When does Hamilton de Souza cease to talk, in the narrator's experience?
(a) When he takes the name Hamilton de Souza.
(b) When he sails for Salerno, Italy.
(c) When he sails for Europe.
(d) When he meets with Father Duryea in the Vatican.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Tod Friendly get a letter every year?

2. What seems to the narrator to make more sense backwards?

3. How does Odilo Unverdorben's assignment to Shless-Hartheim appear to the narrator?

4. What describes Odilo Unverdorben's sex life with his wife while he is working for the Waffen Secret Service?

5. When does the narrator begin to feel that the world is going to start making sense very soon?

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