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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator think the Jews are rejuvenated in the back of the vans his unit uses to ferry Jews?
(a) With carbon monoxide gas.
(b) With machine guns.
(c) With electricity.
(d) With Zyklon B pellets.

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

8. About whom does Odilo Unverdorben dream in the time before the war?
(a) Jewish patients.
(b) The man in the white coat.
(c) His mother.
(d) Babies.

9. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's baby?
(a) Eva.
(b) Irene.
(c) Marta.
(d) Inge.

10. What is Solingen known for?
(a) Jewish culture.
(b) Surgical instruments.
(c) Airplane parts factories.
(d) Orphanages.

11. Why doesn't anyone at Schless-Hartheim know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
(a) It is top secret.
(b) The official account of the work at Auschwitz has not been published yet.
(c) It has not happened yet.
(d) He had changed his name so no one would know he was there.

12. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?
(a) He misses its glorious days as a death camp.
(b) He dreams about it being burned to the ground.
(c) He misses the experiments he learned at Schless-Hartheim.
(d) He is glad to see it in its peacetime prime.

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

14. What does Odilo Unverdorben's mother say when she meets him in the hospital?
(a) "You don't want to know."
(b) "Here are the papers and money you asked for."
(c) "I've been waiting for you."
(d) "Where am I?"

15. How does Odilo Unverdorben's assignment to Shless-Hartheim appear to the narrator?
(a) The narrator misses the magic of Auschwitz.
(b) The narrator wants to escape from the camps altogether.
(c) The narrator sees it as a promotion.
(d) The narrator sees it as a sign that the war was ending.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben feels about Jews when he is in medical school?

3. What does the narrator think is happening to Odilo Unverdorben as time goes on?

4. How does Odilo Unverdorben behave in a crowd?

5. How old is the narrator when he realizes that he would soon be born?

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