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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?
(a) They work for their freedom.
(b) They come to life with strong emotions.
(c) They are processed with spare parts.
(d) They are processed with fire and gas.

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

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

5. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father would take away Odilo's pain?
(a) By massaging the place that hurt.
(b) With a swat of his hand.
(c) By applying an ice pack.
(d) By kissing the place that hurt.

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

7. How does the narrator feel when Odilo Unverdorben returns to married life in the years before Auschwitz?
(a) His loyalties are split between Herta and Uncle Pepi.
(b) He feels redeemed.
(c) He is relieved.
(d) He suffers terribly.

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

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

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

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

12. What do Odilo Unverdorben and Herta discuss while she is pregnant?
(a) Baby names.
(b) Moving in with her parents.
(c) Running away to America.
(d) Performing experiments with the Nazis.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't anyone at Schless-Hartheim know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?

2. What does Odilo Unverdorben see at Auschwitz when he visits with his family?

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

4. On which front does Odilo Unverdorben serve in the Waffen Secret Service?

5. How does the narrator look back at his own experience from the perspective of Odilo Unverdorben's time at Schless-Hartheim?

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