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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) They only make love when they think she might conceive a baby.
(c) They make love all the time.
(d) He is impotent.

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

3. Where does the narrator think Herta's letters come from?
(a) The sprinkle rooms.
(b) The mail box.
(c) The fire.
(d) The trash.

4. What happens to the Jews in Germany when the racial laws are passed?
(a) They are allowed to work in any profession.
(b) They are told to leave the country.
(c) They are rounded up and placed in ghettos.
(d) They are banned from good jobs.

5. What is Odilo Unverdorben's reasoning for visiting prostitutes?
(a) He is despairing for the failure of his marriage.
(b) He is intoxicated with his power.
(c) He says that he loves the human body and all living things.
(d) He wants to be soothed for the horror of his work.

6. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father is going to kill him?
(a) By giving Odilo a fatal case of pneumonia.
(b) By beating Odilo to death as an infant.
(c) By casting him out in an exorcism.
(d) By inseminating Odilo's mother.

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

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

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

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

11. What time does the station clock read at Treblinka when Odilo Unverdorben sees it?
(a) 1:04.
(b) 13:27.
(c) 12:40.
(d) 4:31.

12. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live with his wife?
(a) Munich.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Salerno.
(d) Schless-Hartheim.

13. What token does Herta give to Odilo Unverdorben while they are courting?
(a) A lock of her hair.
(b) A locket with her portrait.
(c) A box for her letters.
(d) A ring.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people feel about the Jews whom the narrator thinks are brought to life at Schless-Hartheim?

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

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

4. Where are the patients stacked neatly?

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

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