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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. What day follows October 1 in the narrator's experience?
(a) September 30.
(b) October 2.
(c) April 1.
(d) September 1.

2. What describes Odilo Unverdorben's sex life with his wife while he is working for the Waffen Secret Service?
(a) They only make love when they think she might conceive a baby.
(b) They make love all the time.
(c) He sleeps with prostitutes, not with his wife.
(d) He is impotent.

3. How does the narrator feel about what John Young does for a living?
(a) He admires his kindness.
(b) He resents his expertise.
(c) He is inspired by him.
(d) He hates his cruelty.

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. How does the narrator feel about Odilo Unverdorben's father?
(a) He is happy about returning to a healthy, strong man.
(b) He looks forward to returning into the father's body as sperm.
(c) He is afraid that the father hates Odilo.
(d) He cannot forgive Odilo's father for killing him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the bodies come from that the narrator thinks are rejuvenated in the back of the vans?

2. What happens when the narrator has a moment of lucidity?

3. How does Odilo Unverdorben travel through Germany?

4. What does the man in the basement apartment say when John Young says, "You were expecting me, my name is John Young"?

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

(see the answer key)

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