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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think the patients feel about being gathered at Auschwitz?
(a) Confusion about their detention.
(b) Gratitude for being created.
(c) Fear of death.
(d) Anxious for the end.

3. How long does Odilo Unverdorben work in the Waffen Secret Service?
(a) One month.
(b) Four months.
(c) Five months.
(d) Three months.

4. What does the narrator think when he sees the rail station at Treblinka?
(a) He thinks it is a centerpiece of the Final Solution.
(b) He thinks it is a fake to deceive the Polish Jews.
(c) He thinks it is a progressive medical facility.
(d) He thinks it is a movie set.

5. What does Odilo Unverdorben dream about as a young child?
(a) The war.
(b) Colors and noises.
(c) The man in the white coat.
(d) His mother.

6. Whose work does the narrator believe Odilo Unverdorben is doing?
(a) God's.
(b) Humanity's.
(c) Uncle Pepi's.
(d) His own.

7. How does the narrator experience the change from Auschwitz to Schless-Hartheim?
(a) As an opportunity to help people who need more help.
(b) As progress from a big camp for the masses to a more specialized camp.
(c) As a frightful decline in "people-making" skills.
(d) As a more humane way to treat prisoners.

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

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

10. How does Odilo Unverdorben's work affect his marriage?
(a) It hardens him so that he cannot respond to his wife.
(b) It gives him more to talk about with his wife.
(c) It gives him ideas about how he and his wife could live in the future.
(d) It makes him more sensitive to his wife's sufferings.

11. What are Jews forbidden from buying when the racial laws are passed?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Passports.
(c) Train tickets.
(d) Postage stamps.

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

13. Where does the narrator think that the Waffen Secret Service gets the ashes with which to make people?
(a) From the ovens at Auschwitz.
(b) From Poland.
(c) From the earth.
(d) From people's families.

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

15. What does Odilo Unverdorben see at Auschwitz when he visits with his family?
(a) Old barracks and industrial structures.
(b) Sprinkle rooms and mass graves.
(c) Surgical instrument factories.
(d) The Holocaust Museum.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think the showers are for at Auschwitz?

3. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?

4. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father would take away Odilo's pain?

5. What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows?

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