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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does John Young tell the Reverend Kreditor when they meet?
2. How does the narrator feel about Irene?
3. With whom does Hamilton de Souza meet at the Vatican?
4. What is Tod Friendly's job?
5. Where does Odilo Unverdorben pass through on his way south at the end of the war?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does John Young/Hamilton de Souza feel about his body?
2. What condition is Europe in when Odilo Unverdorben leaves?
3. What is the narrator's relationship with Irene?
4. Describe the narrator's mindset at the beginning of the novel.
5. What is the narrator's relationship with Tod Friendly?
6. What does the narrator understand about sex?
7. Describe some cases in which characters are wistful about the past.
8. What is Tod's relationship with the narrator?
9. Describe the underground system for taking care of Nazis.
10. Does Tod Friendly/John Young seem to be a good person?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Experiencing everything backward, the narrator mistakes helping people for hurting people and vice versa. Citing specific examples from the text, explore the meaning of this backwardness.
1. Does the narrator experience normal human reactions to what he sees, or are his emotions backward too? Can we trust him to have feelings based on what he sees?
2. Does the narrator's backwardness portray pain and assistance in a new or surprising light? What do we learn from the narrator about how people hurt or help each other?
3. Does the narrator's backwardness make us more or less sensitive to people's sufferings?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator and Odilo Unverdorben are both characters in the author's narration. Does the author ever indicate his support of one or the other? Whose side does the author seem to be on? Cite specific instances from the text where the narration or the irony give you insight into the author's own point of view. How would you characterize the author's beliefs or feelings? How does the author's perspective differ from the narrator's or Odilo's?
Essay Topic 3
What would you have done if you were Odilo Unverdorben's age in Germany when the Nazis were coming to power? Given what you know about the progressively tighter restrictions on Jews' behavior, would you have followed along, or would you have kept yourself apart from the fascism, or would you have resisted it? Cite instances from the book of the kinds of choices you would have faced, and cite instances from your own experience as you discuss how you would have faced them.
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