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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. How does the narrator know that Tod Friendly speaks a second language?
(a) Tod reads the foreign newspapers.
(b) Tod understands when the doctors speak to him.
(c) Tod dreams of it sometimes.
(d) Tod tells him.

2. Where does Herta work when Odilo Unverdorben meets her?
(a) As a nurse at Schless-Hartheim.
(b) As a secretary in his school.
(c) As a milliner in Munich.
(d) As a nurse in the hospital in Munich.

3. What secret does the narrator know about Solingen?
(a) That its inhabitants will be massacred.
(b) That it is Adolf Eichmann's birthplace.
(c) That it will be destroyed in the war.
(d) That it will be the site of a death camp.

4. What happens to Tod Friendly's body over time?
(a) He gets older and more infirm.
(b) He spends less and less time masturbating.
(c) He spends more and more time in the bathroom.
(d) He gets younger, stronger, and more virile.

5. What is Odilo Unverdorben's reasoning for visiting prostitutes?
(a) He wants to be soothed for the horror of his work.
(b) He is intoxicated with his power.
(c) He is despairing for the failure of his marriage.
(d) He says that he loves the human body and all living things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to the narrator to make more sense backwards?

2. Why is the narrator sad as Odilo Unverdorben gets younger?

3. What does the narrator describe as an "atrocity-producing" situation?

4. What does Herta know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?

5. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben feels about Jews when he is in medical school?

(see the answer key)

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