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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Odilo Unverdorben's wife relax while she is pregnant?
(a) She collects ashes to make babies with.
(b) She sews baby clothes.
(c) She takes apart baby furniture.
(d) She makes love with Odilo.

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

4. What does Odilo Unverdorben's wife think about the work Odilo is doing at the camp?
(a) She questions whether it is legal.
(b) She admires his power to create.
(c) She approves of his hard work.
(d) She loves him for his vision.

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

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

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

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

9. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's baby?
(a) Marta.
(b) Irene.
(c) Inge.
(d) Eva.

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

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

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

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

14. How old is Herta when Odilo Unverdorben meets her?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

15. What are Jews forbidden from buying when the racial laws are passed?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Passports.
(c) Postage stamps.
(d) Train tickets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Odilo Unverdorben grow up?

2. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi uses to bring dead patients back to life?

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

4. Why is the narrator sad as Odilo Unverdorben gets younger?

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

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