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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 kind of women does John Young prefer?
(a) Women who smoke and drink.
(b) Women with children.
(c) Women with diseases.
(d) Women with husbands.

2. How do the other doctors feel about John Young?
(a) They admire his virility.
(b) They are inspired by him.
(c) They distrust him.
(d) They are disgusted by him.

3. How does the narrator look back at his own experience from the perspective of Odilo Unverdorben's time at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) He realizes that he has been living Odilo Unverdorben's life backwards.
(b) He wants to redeem his past failures by making better people.
(c) He misses his work in the hospitals in America.
(d) He sees Auschwitz as the high point of his life.

4. What does the narrator describe as an "atrocity-producing" situation?
(a) The possibility of nuclear war.
(b) The city.
(c) JFK's hero's welcome in Dallas.
(d) The hospital.

5. Who withdraws the Zyklon B pellets to give them to the pharmacist?
(a) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
(b) The patients.
(c) Odilo Unverdorben.
(d) Uncle Pepi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?

2. How many Hungarian Jews are at Auschwitz when Herta visits?

3. Where does the narrator believe food comes from?

4. What does the narrator believe happens to people after they are "created' at Auschwitz?

5. How do people feel about the Jews whom the narrator thinks are brought to life at Schless-Hartheim?

(see the answer key)

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