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

2. How does Odilo Unverdorben's work affect his marriage?
(a) It gives him ideas about how he and his wife could live in the future.
(b) It hardens him so that he cannot respond to his wife.
(c) It gives him more to talk about with his wife.
(d) It makes him more sensitive to his wife's sufferings.

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

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

5. 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 wants to kill them.
(d) He pities them and wants to save them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father would take away Odilo's pain?

2. What is Solingen known for?

3. What token does Herta give to Odilo Unverdorben while they are courting?

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

5. How are women and children processed at Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. The narrator is usually just stuck with his backward perspective. Describe a case where he creates his own explanations and has to explain things to himself.

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

3. Describe Herta's feelings about Auschwitz.

4. How does the narrator describe the Jews' experiences at Auschwitz?

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

6. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben in the years before/after Odilo began to work in the camps.

7. As Odilo Unverdorben ages, how is the narrator affected by his time at Auschwitz?

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

9. Name four methods Odilo Unverdorben sees the Germans use to "process" the Jews?

10. 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?

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