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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. What does Odilo Unverdorben see at Auschwitz when he visits with his family?
(a) Surgical instrument factories.
(b) Sprinkle rooms and mass graves.
(c) Old barracks and industrial structures.
(d) The Holocaust Museum.

2. What would Herta do after Odilo Unverdorben would spend hours begging for her attention?
(a) Kiss him.
(b) Make love with him.
(c) Touch him briefly.
(d) Offer to live with him.

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

4. What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows?
(a) Comic irony.
(b) Cosmic irony.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Tragic irony.

5. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father is going to kill him?
(a) By casting him out in an exorcism.
(b) By giving Odilo a fatal case of pneumonia.
(c) By inseminating Odilo's mother.
(d) By beating Odilo to death as an infant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live with his wife?

2. Where does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's unit ferries Jews to and from?

3. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's work is?

4. How does Odilo Unverdorben's wife relax while she is pregnant?

5. Which answer describes Odilo Unverdorben's German at the end of his time at Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the irony of the narrator's impression of Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Jews.

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

6. 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?

7. 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.

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

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

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

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