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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the patients stacked neatly?
(a) In the sprinkle rooms.
(b) In the ovens.
(c) In the barracks.
(d) In the ox carts.

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

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

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

5. How are women and children processed at Auschwitz?
(a) With gas and fire.
(b) With supernatural power.
(c) With hard labor.
(d) With electricity and feces.

6. What would Herta do after Odilo Unverdorben would spend hours begging for her attention?
(a) Kiss him.
(b) Offer to live with him.
(c) Make love with him.
(d) Touch him briefly.

7. What does the narrator think when he sees the rail station at Treblinka?
(a) He thinks it is a fake to deceive the Polish Jews.
(b) He thinks it is a movie set.
(c) He thinks it is a progressive medical facility.
(d) He thinks it is a centerpiece of the Final Solution.

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

9. Where would Odilo Unverdorben and Herta secretly kiss while they were courting?
(a) In the stairway.
(b) In the office where she worked.
(c) In her parents' house.
(d) In the train station

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

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

12. What token does Herta give to Odilo Unverdorben while they are courting?
(a) A locket with her portrait.
(b) A lock of her hair.
(c) A ring.
(d) A box for her letters.

13. 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 redeeming himself for his evil deeds.
(c) He is learning from his experience and becoming wise.
(d) He is becoming a less and less important person.

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

15. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben feels about Jews when he is in medical school?
(a) He likes them.
(b) He thinks they cause a lot of problems.
(c) He pities them and wants to save them.
(d) He wants to kill them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when the narrator thinks he returned to married life?

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

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

4. What time does the station clock read at Treblinka when Odilo Unverdorben sees it?

5. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when he visits Auschwitz for the first time?

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