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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 see at Auschwitz when he visits with his family?
2. What do Odilo Unverdorben and Herta discuss while she is pregnant?
3. Whose work does the narrator believe Odilo Unverdorben is doing?
4. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live while he is in medical school?
5. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the similarities and differences between the narrator and Uncle Pepi.
2. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben's father.
3. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's courtship of Herta.
4. 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.
5. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his father.
6. What is the importance of Odilo Unverdorben's childhood home?
7. 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?
8. Describe the irony of the narrator thinking that Odilo Unverdorben and Herta are taking apart baby furniture and un-sewing baby clothes.
9. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?
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
The narrator and Odilo both have secret knowledge which others around them do not know.
1. Citing specific examples from the text, describe the effect of secrets on Odilo and the narrator. Who can they tell? Who do they have to keep the secrets from? How do the secrets affect their decisions or their feelings?
2. What part do the secrets play in the characters' development? What kinds of things are possible because of their secret knowledge? What kinds of things are impossible?
3. Why is Odilo afraid of being found out? Is there ever a time when he acts honestly, or considers revealing his secret to another character?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Men and women have different perspectives on the events of this book.
1. How do men's and women's perspectives differ? How are they similar? How would you characterize men's perspectives, and how would you characterize women's? Do individuals have both male and female characteristics?
2. Where do men's and women's perspectives and values come into conflict? Whose values or whose power wins those conflicts?
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