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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 often does Odilo Unverdorben spend time with Herta at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) She visits when she could.
(b) She lives with him for a month at a time.
(c) She lives with him there.
(d) She hardly ever visits him there.

2. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when the narrator thinks he returned to married life?
(a) 48 years old.
(b) 25 years old.
(c) 18 years old.
(d) 63 years old.

3. What does Uncle Pepi keep in a box on his desk?
(a) Human eyes.
(b) Kerosene.
(c) Zyklon B pellets
(d) Amputated limbs.

4. How does Odilo Unverdorben's wife relax while she is pregnant?
(a) She collects ashes to make babies with.
(b) She takes apart baby furniture.
(c) She sews baby clothes.
(d) She makes love with Odilo.

5. How does the narrator experience the change from Auschwitz to Schless-Hartheim?
(a) As a frightful decline in "people-making" skills.
(b) As progress from a big camp for the masses to a more specialized camp.
(c) As a more humane way to treat prisoners.
(d) As an opportunity to help people who need more help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Odilo Unverdorben's wife think about the work Odilo is doing at the camp?

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

3. What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's name?

4. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?

5. In what condition is Auschwitz when the narrator thinks Odilo Unverdorben arrives there?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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