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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Because Ducks Are Fat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator shocked when Irene comes to the house?
(a) She walks forward toward the house.
(b) She is being beaten up by a pimp.
(c) She is crying because the garden was in disrepair.
(d) She tells Tod Friendly that she is in love with him.

2. Why are the people on the ship to America happy?
(a) They are going off to fight in the war.
(b) They are anxious to get away from the troubles in America.
(c) They are looking forward to making a new start in Europe.
(d) They are fleeing the war-torn continent.

3. How do people feel about the Jews whom the narrator thinks are brought to life at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) No one wants them.
(b) They are welcomed with celebration.
(c) Everyone envies them.
(d) They are spurned as hardened criminals.

4. What does Odilo Unverdorben's mother say when she meets him in the hospital?
(a) "I've been waiting for you."
(b) "You don't want to know."
(c) "Here are the papers and money you asked for."
(d) "Where am I?"

5. What does Tod Friendly think the orderlies did to him at the accident scene?
(a) Shaved him.
(b) Kissed him.
(c) Stole his money.
(d) Took him to the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator thinking about when John Young is sailing to Europe?

2. About whom does Odilo Unverdorben dream in the time before the war?

3. What can the narrator control?

4. What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's job?

5. In the narrator's experience, what happens to cause "the Agent's" staff to become cold and distant?

(see the answer key)

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