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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 Odilo Unverdorben's wife relax while she is pregnant?
(a) She takes apart baby furniture.
(b) She sews baby clothes.
(c) She collects ashes to make babies with.
(d) She makes love with Odilo.

2. How does Odilo Unverdorben travel through Germany?
(a) In troop carriers.
(b) By truck.
(c) By motorcycle.
(d) By hitchhiking.

3. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?
(a) Herta.
(b) Marta.
(c) Irene.
(d) Inge.

4. What is Irene saying the first time the narrator hears her voice?
(a) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows about his affairs with other women.
(b) She is telling Tod Friendly goodbye.
(c) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows his true identity.
(d) She is telling Tod Friendly she loves him.

5. What is the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?
(a) There is such a thing as life that is not worthy of life.
(b) You don't want to know.
(c) Work will set you free.
(d) That which does not kill you will make you stronger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?

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

3. What does the old man tell Tod Friendly after the narrator sees Tod drive his car away from the fire hydrant?

4. What does the narrator look forward to in Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?

5. What does Tod Friendly see when he looks in the mirror?

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