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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator experience the change from Auschwitz to Schless-Hartheim?
(a) As progress from a big camp for the masses to a more specialized camp.
(b) As a frightful decline in "people-making" skills.
(c) As an opportunity to help people who need more help.
(d) As a more humane way to treat prisoners.

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

4. Why doesn't anyone at Schless-Hartheim know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
(a) He had changed his name so no one would know he was there.
(b) The official account of the work at Auschwitz has not been published yet.
(c) It is top secret.
(d) It has not happened yet.

5. Where does Odilo Unverdorben grow up?
(a) Inverness.
(b) Schless-Hartheim.
(c) Munich.
(d) Solingen.

6. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live while he is in medical school?
(a) With his mother.
(b) With Herta.
(c) With Irene.
(d) A boarding house.

7. 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.

8. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?
(a) He dreams about it being burned to the ground.
(b) He misses its glorious days as a death camp.
(c) He is glad to see it in its peacetime prime.
(d) He misses the experiments he learned at Schless-Hartheim.

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

10. 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 immortalize her.
(c) He wants to recreate her from ashes.
(d) He wants to use violence against her then heal her.

11. Where does the narrator think that the Waffen Secret Service gets the ashes with which to make people?
(a) From people's families.
(b) From the ovens at Auschwitz.
(c) From the earth.
(d) From Poland.

12. How old is the narrator when he realizes that he would soon be born?
(a) Three years old.
(b) Two years old.
(c) One year old.
(d) Eighteen months old.

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

14. Where does Herta work when Odilo Unverdorben meets her?
(a) As a milliner in Munich.
(b) As a nurse at Schless-Hartheim.
(c) As a secretary in his school.
(d) As a nurse in the hospital in Munich.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How successful does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's experiments are?

4. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?

5. What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's name?

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