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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator sad as Odilo Unverdorben gets younger?
(a) He thinks that he will miss his chance to get Odilo to repent.
(b) He knows that he is going to die when Odilo is born.
(c) He dreams about dead Jews trying to kill him.
(d) He is afraid of being inside of Odilo's mother as a baby.

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

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

4. What describes Odilo Unverdorben's sex life with his wife while he is working for the Waffen Secret Service?
(a) He is impotent.
(b) He sleeps with prostitutes, not with his wife.
(c) They make love all the time.
(d) They only make love when they think she might conceive a baby.

5. 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 casting him out in an exorcism.
(c) By inseminating Odilo's mother.
(d) By beating Odilo to death as an infant.

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

7. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi uses to bring dead patients back to life?
(a) Showers.
(b) Phenol injections.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Fire.

8. What is Odilo Unverdorben's family doing when they visit Auschwitz?
(a) Looking for someplace to live.
(b) Camping.
(c) Touring Holocaust museums.
(d) Looking for Odilo's secret life.

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

10. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when the narrator thinks he returned to married life?
(a) 18 years old.
(b) 25 years old.
(c) 48 years old.
(d) 63 years old.

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

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

13. What does the narrator believe happens to people after they are "created' at Auschwitz?
(a) They go home on the trains.
(b) They are killed in the sprinkle rooms.
(c) They work to make more people.
(d) They are sent off to work in the camp.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?

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

3. What does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's mother will do when Odilo returns into her body?

4. Who owns Auschwitz when Odilo Unverdorben visits it with his parents?

5. Where does Herta work when Odilo Unverdorben meets her?

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