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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the narrator when he realizes that he would soon be born?
(a) Two years old.
(b) Three years old.
(c) One year old.
(d) Eighteen months old.

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

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

4. What does Odilo Unverdorben's wife think about the work Odilo is doing at the camp?
(a) She admires his power to create.
(b) She questions whether it is legal.
(c) She approves of his hard work.
(d) She loves him for his vision.

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

6. What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's job?
(a) Secretary.
(b) Real estate agent.
(c) Milliner.
(d) Nurse.

7. What does Uncle Pepi keep in a box on his desk?
(a) Amputated limbs.
(b) Human eyes.
(c) Zyklon B pellets
(d) Kerosene.

8. In what condition is Auschwitz when the narrator thinks Odilo Unverdorben arrives there?
(a) Functional place, but no one was speaking.
(b) Thriving, with sweet smells in the air.
(c) Full of confidence in making human progress.
(d) Dirty, with human feces everywhere.

9. How does Odilo Unverdorben behave in a crowd?
(a) He is follower.
(b) He is an agitator.
(c) He is a leader.
(d) He is a hooligan.

10. What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's name?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Marta.
(c) Herta.
(d) Inge.

11. 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 wants to redeem his past failures by making better people.
(c) He realizes that he has been living Odilo Unverdorben's life backwards.
(d) He misses his work in the hospitals in America.

12. Where does Odilo Unverdorben grow up?
(a) Solingen.
(b) Inverness.
(c) Schless-Hartheim.
(d) Munich.

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

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

15. What does Herta know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
(a) She approves of his work and experiments.
(b) She does not know about it; Odilo keeps it secret.
(c) She suggested Odilo work there herself.
(d) She thinks that he is working at a children's hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's mother will do when Odilo returns into her body?

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

3. How does Odilo Unverdorben's work affect his marriage?

4. Why doesn't anyone at Schless-Hartheim know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?

5. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father is going to kill him?

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