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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Odilo Unverdorben's mother say when she meets him in the hospital?
(a) "Here are the papers and money you asked for."
(b) "You don't want to know."
(c) "I've been waiting for you."
(d) "Where am I?"

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

6. How does the narrator think about expressing his affection for Herta?
(a) He wants to recreate her from ashes.
(b) He wants to marry her and have a baby with her.
(c) He wants to use violence against her then heal her.
(d) He wants to immortalize her.

7. What does the narrator think the patients feel about being gathered at Auschwitz?
(a) Fear of death.
(b) Anxious for the end.
(c) Gratitude for being created.
(d) Confusion about their detention.

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

9. What does the narrator think is happening to Odilo Unverdorben as time goes on?
(a) He is redeeming himself for his evil deeds.
(b) He is getting forgetful in his old age.
(c) He is learning from his experience and becoming wise.
(d) He is becoming a less and less important person.

10. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?
(a) Irene.
(b) Inge.
(c) Marta.
(d) Herta.

11. What does Uncle Pepi keep in a box on his desk?
(a) Amputated limbs.
(b) Kerosene.
(c) Zyklon B pellets
(d) Human eyes.

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

13. Whose work does the narrator believe Odilo Unverdorben is doing?
(a) Uncle Pepi's.
(b) His own.
(c) Humanity's.
(d) God's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are women and children processed at Auschwitz?

2. How does the narrator feel about Odilo Unverdorben's father?

3. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?

4. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's work is?

5. Where do the bodies come from that the narrator thinks are rejuvenated in the back of the vans?

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