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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Herta work when Odilo Unverdorben meets her?
(a) As a secretary in his school.
(b) As a nurse at Schless-Hartheim.
(c) As a nurse in the hospital in Munich.
(d) As a milliner in Munich.

2. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father would take away Odilo's pain?
(a) By kissing the place that hurt.
(b) By applying an ice pack.
(c) By massaging the place that hurt.
(d) With a swat of his hand.

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

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

5. 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 people's families.
(d) From the earth.

6. What do Odilo Unverdorben and Herta discuss while she is pregnant?
(a) Baby names.
(b) Moving in with her parents.
(c) Running away to America.
(d) Performing experiments with the Nazis.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's mother will do when Odilo returns into her body?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Wish for a girl baby.
(c) Scream that he is gone.
(d) Have an abortion.

13. Who withdraws the Zyklon B pellets to give them to the pharmacist?
(a) Odilo Unverdorben.
(b) Uncle Pepi.
(c) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
(d) The patients.

14. Where do the bodies come from that the narrator thinks are rejuvenated in the back of the vans?
(a) Cemeteries.
(b) Mass graves.
(c) Ovens.
(d) Ghettos.

15. How does Odilo Unverdorben's father look, when Odilo is a young child?
(a) Full of vitality and virility.
(b) Wasted, as if he is not eating enough.
(c) Jolly, carefree, and healthy.
(d) Anxious and jittery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's work is?

3. How does the narrator feel about Uncle Pepi?

4. How does the narrator look back at his own experience from the perspective of Odilo Unverdorben's time at Schless-Hartheim?

5. On which front does Odilo Unverdorben serve in the Waffen Secret Service?

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