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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the bodies come from that the narrator thinks are rejuvenated in the back of the vans?
(a) Ghettos.
(b) Ovens.
(c) Cemeteries.
(d) Mass graves.

2. What does the narrator think the very thin men are doing at the camps when they tip their heads back towards the sky strangely?
(a) Looking for signs of good weather.
(b) Waiting to meet their families.
(c) Looking forward to death.
(d) Praying for deliverance from the camps.

3. In what condition is Auschwitz when the narrator thinks Odilo Unverdorben arrives there?
(a) Functional place, but no one was speaking.
(b) Full of confidence in making human progress.
(c) Thriving, with sweet smells in the air.
(d) Dirty, with human feces everywhere.

4. What is the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?
(a) That which does not kill you will make you stronger.
(b) You don't want to know.
(c) There is such a thing as life that is not worthy of life.
(d) Work will set you free.

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

6. What secret does the narrator know about Solingen?
(a) That it will be destroyed in the war.
(b) That it will be the site of a death camp.
(c) That it is Adolf Eichmann's birthplace.
(d) That its inhabitants will be massacred.

7. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when he visits Auschwitz for the first time?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

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

9. 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.

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

11. Who owns Auschwitz when Odilo Unverdorben visits it with his parents?
(a) The Austrians.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Polish.
(d) The Alsatians.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does Odilo Unverdorben dream in the time before the war?

2. What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows?

3. How does the narrator feel when Odilo Unverdorben returns to married life in the years before Auschwitz?

4. What does the narrator think the showers are for at Auschwitz?

5. Where would Odilo Unverdorben and Herta secretly kiss while they were courting?

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