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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's father look, when Odilo is a young child?
(a) Anxious and jittery.
(b) Jolly, carefree, and healthy.
(c) Wasted, as if he is not eating enough.
(d) Full of vitality and virility.

2. What does Odilo Unverdorben dream about as a young child?
(a) The man in the white coat.
(b) His mother.
(c) Colors and noises.
(d) The war.

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

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

5. How does the narrator think the Jews are rejuvenated in the back of the vans his unit uses to ferry Jews?
(a) With electricity.
(b) With machine guns.
(c) With Zyklon B pellets.
(d) With carbon monoxide gas.

6. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father is going to kill him?
(a) By giving Odilo a fatal case of pneumonia.
(b) By casting him out in an exorcism.
(c) By beating Odilo to death as an infant.
(d) By inseminating Odilo's mother.

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

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

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

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

11. How do people feel about the Jews whom the narrator thinks are brought to life at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) No one wants them.
(b) They are spurned as hardened criminals.
(c) They are welcomed with celebration.
(d) Everyone envies them.

12. What is the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?
(a) Work will set you free.
(b) You don't want to know.
(c) There is such a thing as life that is not worthy of life.
(d) That which does not kill you will make you stronger.

13. How does the narrator feel about Uncle Pepi?
(a) He is appalled by his ability to create.
(b) He envies his power.
(c) He is disgusted by him.
(d) He is in awe of him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's mother will do when Odilo returns into her body?

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

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

4. What does the narrator look forward to in Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?

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

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