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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are women and children processed at Auschwitz?
(a) With electricity and feces.
(b) With supernatural power.
(c) With hard labor.
(d) With gas and fire.

2. What does the narrator look forward to in Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
(a) The first signs of life in the people they created.
(b) The sleep-like peace of the dead people.
(c) The purification of the human body in fire.
(d) The piles of gold and property.

3. What does the narrator think of Odilo Unverdorben in his youth?
(a) He is unimpressed.
(b) He foresees great things for him.
(c) He hates him for all the things he was about to do.
(d) He thinks he is lazy.

4. Who owns Auschwitz when Odilo Unverdorben visits it with his parents?
(a) The Austrians.
(b) The Alsatians.
(c) The Polish.
(d) The Germans.

5. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?
(a) He dreams about it being burned to the ground.
(b) He misses the experiments he learned at Schless-Hartheim.
(c) He misses its glorious days as a death camp.
(d) He is glad to see it in its peacetime prime.

6. How does the narrator compare Schless-Hartheim to Auschwitz?
(a) He thinks Schless-Hartheim was much dirtier.
(b) He thinks Schless-Hartheim was more impressive.
(c) He thinks Schless-Hartheim was less efficient.
(d) He thinks Schless-Hartheim was less modern.

7. Where would Odilo Unverdorben and Herta secretly kiss while they were courting?
(a) In her parents' house.
(b) In the stairway.
(c) In the train station
(d) In the office where she worked.

8. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live while he is in medical school?
(a) With Irene.
(b) With his mother.
(c) A boarding house.
(d) With Herta.

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

10. How does the narrator look back at his own experience from the perspective of Odilo Unverdorben's time at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) He sees Auschwitz as the high point of his life.
(b) He misses his work in the hospitals in America.
(c) He realizes that he has been living Odilo Unverdorben's life backwards.
(d) He wants to redeem his past failures by making better people.

11. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?
(a) They work for their freedom.
(b) They are processed with fire and gas.
(c) They come to life with strong emotions.
(d) They are processed with spare parts.

12. On which front does Odilo Unverdorben serve in the Waffen Secret Service?
(a) Northern front.
(b) Eastern front.
(c) Southern front.
(d) Western front.

13. How often does Odilo Unverdorben spend time with Herta at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) She hardly ever visits him there.
(b) She visits when she could.
(c) She lives with him for a month at a time.
(d) She lives with him there.

14. What would Herta do after Odilo Unverdorben would spend hours begging for her attention?
(a) Make love with him.
(b) Kiss him.
(c) Offer to live with him.
(d) Touch him briefly.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does Odilo Unverdorben work in the Waffen Secret Service?

3. Which answer describes Odilo Unverdorben's German at the end of his time at Auschwitz?

4. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live with his wife?

5. What do Odilo Unverdorben and Herta discuss while she is pregnant?

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