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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 the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?
(a) That which does not kill you will make you stronger.
(b) There is such a thing as life that is not worthy of life.
(c) Work will set you free.
(d) You don't want to know.

2. In what condition is John Young's body when he sails for Europe?
(a) He is sick with apprehension about the voyage.
(b) He is fat and out of shape from living in luxury.
(c) He is thin from living in poverty.
(d) He is healthy with a good tan.

3. In the narrator's experience, what happens to cause "the Agent's" staff to become cold and distant?
(a) The German surrender.
(b) The Japanese surrender.
(c) John Young sailed for Europe.
(d) Hamilton de Souza met with Father Duryea.

4. How does Odilo Unverdorben's work affect his marriage?
(a) It gives him ideas about how he and his wife could live in the future.
(b) It gives him more to talk about with his wife.
(c) It makes him more sensitive to his wife's sufferings.
(d) It hardens him so that he cannot respond to his wife.

5. Where does Odilo Unverdorben pass through on his way south at the end of the war?
(a) Bologna.
(b) Salerno.
(c) Rome.
(d) Lisbon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator experience the change from Auschwitz to Schless-Hartheim?

2. What is Irene saying the first time the narrator hears her voice?

3. How does the narrator look back at his own experience from the perspective of Odilo Unverdorben's time at Schless-Hartheim?

4. How does the narrator feel about John Young's experience in the hospital?

5. What does the narrator wish he could say to Irene?

(see the answer key)

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