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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 their villages from the ghettos.
(b) To Treblinka from Auschwitz.
(c) To the ghettos from their villages.
(d) To Auschwitz from Salerno, Italy.

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

3. What do Odilo Unverdorben and Herta discuss while she is pregnant?
(a) Moving in with her parents.
(b) Baby names.
(c) Performing experiments with the Nazis.
(d) Running away to America.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns Auschwitz when Odilo Unverdorben visits it with his parents?

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

3. What time does the station clock read at Treblinka when Odilo Unverdorben sees it?

4. How long does Odilo Unverdorben work in the Waffen Secret Service?

5. Where does Odilo Unverdorben grow up?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. How does the narrator's impression of the killings at Schless-Hartheim increase the reader's sense of sympathy for the people the Nazis killed there?

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

6. Describe the irony of the narrator thinking that Odilo Unverdorben and Herta are taking apart baby furniture and un-sewing baby clothes.

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

8. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's courtship of Herta.

9. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his father.

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

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