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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 Odilo Unverdorben's mother say when she meets him in the hospital?
2. How does Odilo Unverdorben's work affect his marriage?
3. What is Odilo Unverdorben's family doing when they visit Auschwitz?
4. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?
5. What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's job?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben's father.
2. How does the narrator's relationship with Herta progress?
3. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his mother.
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. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's courtship of Herta.
6. Describe the irony of the narrator's impression of Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Jews.
7. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben by the end of this chapter, at which point Odilo has just arrived at Schless-Hartheim.
8. How is the narrator right about Odilo Unverdorben's personality as a young man?
9. Describe Herta's feelings about Auschwitz.
10. As Odilo Unverdorben ages, how is the narrator affected by his time at Auschwitz?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the narrator's backwards point of view distort our experience of Odilo Unverdorben's life and actions? How does it help to reveal it? Citing specific examples from the text, describe the effect of the narrator's point of view.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Irene and Herta both have children whom they cannot keep. Compare and contrast the effects of this loss on Herta and Irene. How is the experience similar for the two women? How is it different? How does it affect their lives and their relationships with Odilo Unverdorben?
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