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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 does the narrator think when he sees the rail station at Treblinka?
(a) He thinks it is a movie set.
(b) He thinks it is a centerpiece of the Final Solution.
(c) He thinks it is a progressive medical facility.
(d) He thinks it is a fake to deceive the Polish Jews.

2. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live most comfortably?
(a) On board the ship to Europe.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) Salerno.
(d) Germany.

3. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?
(a) He reads their lips.
(b) He deciphers the code in which people speak.
(c) He translates their words from another language.
(d) He reverses their words.

4. Where does the narrator go when he leaves the hospital?
(a) Doctors take him to Auschwitz, where he is killed.
(b) Orderlies take him on a stretcher and put him on the ground.
(c) He goes home to Main Street USA.
(d) To the tennis court, where he plays tennis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Pepi keep in a box on his desk?

2. What sport does Tod Friendly take up?

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

4. What do Odilo Unverdorben and Herta discuss while she is pregnant?

5. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi uses to bring dead patients back to life?

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