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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do the bodies come from that the narrator thinks are rejuvenated in the back of the vans?
(a) Ghettos.
(b) Cemeteries.
(c) Mass graves.
(d) Ovens.

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

4. What does the narrator think of Odilo Unverdorben in his youth?
(a) He hates him for all the things he was about to do.
(b) He thinks he is lazy.
(c) He foresees great things for him.
(d) He is unimpressed.

5. What is Odilo Unverdorben's reasoning for visiting prostitutes?
(a) He is intoxicated with his power.
(b) He wants to be soothed for the horror of his work.
(c) He says that he loves the human body and all living things.
(d) He is despairing for the failure of his marriage.

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. What does the narrator believe happens to people after they are "created' at Auschwitz?

3. What does the narrator think the patients feel about being gathered at Auschwitz?

4. How does Odilo Unverdorben's assignment to Shless-Hartheim appear to the narrator?

5. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben feels about Jews when he is in medical school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the similarities and differences between the narrator and Uncle Pepi.

2. How is the narrator right about Odilo Unverdorben's personality as a young man?

3. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's courtship of Herta.

4. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's work in the Waffen Secret Service.

5. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his mother.

6. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben's father.

7. What is the importance of Odilo Unverdorben's childhood home?

8. The narrator and Uncle Pepi both see the work at Auschwitz as 100% successful. How does their agreement, from such different viewpoints, affect the reader?

9. How does Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Herta change when he arrives at Schless-Hartheim?

10. Describe Herta's feelings about Auschwitz.

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