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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 can the narrator control?
(a) What Tod Friendly eats.
(b) Where Tod Friendly's eyes go.
(c) Nothing.
(d) What Tod Friendly says.

2. 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 sees Auschwitz as the high point of his life.
(c) He wants to redeem his past failures by making better people.
(d) He misses his work in the hospitals in America.

3. What does the narrator believe happens to people after they are "created' at Auschwitz?
(a) They work to make more people.
(b) They are killed in the sprinkle rooms.
(c) They go home on the trains.
(d) They are sent off to work in the camp.

4. Who is the narrator thinking about when John Young is sailing to Europe?
(a) Irene.
(b) Father Duryea.
(c) Odilo Unverdorben's mother.
(d) Herta

5. Where are the patients stacked neatly?
(a) In the sprinkle rooms.
(b) In the ovens.
(c) In the barracks.
(d) In the ox carts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name on the door where the narrator thinks that Tod Friendly has found an apartment?

2. What describes Odilo Unverdorben's sex life with his wife while he is working for the Waffen Secret Service?

3. How does the narrator think about expressing his affection for Herta?

4. How does the narrator feel at the beginning of the book?

5. What are conditions like in Italy when (in the narrator's experience) Hamilton de Souza lands there?

(see the answer key)

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