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

2. 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 misses its glorious days as a death camp.
(c) He dreams about it being burned to the ground.
(d) He is glad to see it in its peacetime prime.

3. Who withdraws the Zyklon B pellets to give them to the pharmacist?
(a) The patients.
(b) Uncle Pepi.
(c) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
(d) Odilo Unverdorben.

4. What token does Herta give to Odilo Unverdorben while they are courting?
(a) A locket with her portrait.
(b) A lock of her hair.
(c) A box for her letters.
(d) A ring.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think the showers are for at Auschwitz?

3. What does Herta know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?

4. Where does the narrator think that the Waffen Secret Service gets the ashes with which to make people?

5. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator's last experience before he dies?

2. How does the killing change from Schless-Hartheim to Auschwitz?

3. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?

4. How do Odilo Unverdorben's dreams change as he returns (according to the narrator's backward timeline) to his youth?

5. Describe the similarities and differences between Odilo Unverdorben and Uncle Pepi.

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

7. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben by the end of this chapter, at which point Odilo has just arrived at Schless-Hartheim.

8. What are the conditions the narrator finds when Odile Unverdorben arrives at Auschwitz?

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

10. How does the narrator's relationship with Herta progress?

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