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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think the showers are for at Auschwitz?
(a) To kill the prisoners.
(b) To bring the people to life.
(c) To calm the patients.
(d) To purify the Aryan race.

3. How many Hungarian Jews are at Auschwitz when Herta visits?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 100,000.

4. 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 people's families.
(c) From the earth.
(d) From Poland.

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

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

7. How do people feel about the Jews whom the narrator thinks are brought to life at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) They are spurned as hardened criminals.
(b) They are welcomed with celebration.
(c) No one wants them.
(d) Everyone envies them.

8. What does the narrator think is happening to Odilo Unverdorben as time goes on?
(a) He is getting forgetful in his old age.
(b) He is becoming a less and less important person.
(c) He is learning from his experience and becoming wise.
(d) He is redeeming himself for his evil deeds.

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

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

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

12. How successful does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's experiments are?
(a) 50%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 75%.

13. How does Odilo Unverdorben travel through Germany?
(a) In troop carriers.
(b) By hitchhiking.
(c) By truck.
(d) By motorcycle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?

2. The narrator says that he loves Herta as much as whom?

3. How does Odilo Unverdorben behave in a crowd?

4. How does the narrator experience the change from Auschwitz to Schless-Hartheim?

5. In what condition is Auschwitz when the narrator thinks Odilo Unverdorben arrives there?

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