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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel when the Schless-Hartheim camp celebrates its 5,000th patient?
(a) He is disgusted with himself and suicidal.
(b) He is anxious for even greater achievements.
(c) He is proud.
(d) He is depressed.

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

3. How does the narrator feel about Odilo Unverdorben's father?
(a) He is afraid that the father hates Odilo.
(b) He is happy about returning to a healthy, strong man.
(c) He cannot forgive Odilo's father for killing him.
(d) He looks forward to returning into the father's body as sperm.

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

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

6. How does the narrator think about expressing his affection for Herta?
(a) He wants to marry her and have a baby with her.
(b) He wants to recreate her from ashes.
(c) He wants to use violence against her then heal her.
(d) He wants to immortalize her.

7. What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Comic irony.
(c) Cosmic irony.
(d) Tragic irony.

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

9. How does Odilo Unverdorben's work affect his marriage?
(a) It makes him more sensitive to his wife's sufferings.
(b) It gives him more to talk about with his wife.
(c) It hardens him so that he cannot respond to his wife.
(d) It gives him ideas about how he and his wife could live in the future.

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

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

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

13. How does the narrator feel about Uncle Pepi?
(a) He is appalled by his ability to create.
(b) He envies his power.
(c) He is in awe of him.
(d) He is disgusted by him.

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

15. Where does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's unit ferries Jews to and from?
(a) To Treblinka from Auschwitz.
(b) To the ghettos from their villages.
(c) To Auschwitz from Salerno, Italy.
(d) To their villages from the ghettos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work does the narrator believe Odilo Unverdorben is doing?

2. What does Odilo Unverdorben's wife think about the work Odilo is doing at the camp?

3. What is the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?

4. What is Odilo Unverdorben's family doing when they visit Auschwitz?

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

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