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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 is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?
2. How does the narrator think the Jews are rejuvenated in the back of the vans his unit uses to ferry Jews?
3. What does the narrator think when he sees the rail station at Treblinka?
4. The narrator says that he loves Herta as much as whom?
5. What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's work in the Waffen Secret Service.
3. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his mother.
4. How does Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Herta change when he arrives at Schless-Hartheim?
5. How is the narrator right about Odilo Unverdorben's personality as a young man?
6. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben's father.
7. How does the narrator's relationship with Herta progress?
8. Describe Herta's feelings about Auschwitz.
9. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?
10. Describe the irony of the narrator's impression of Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Jews.
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
Babies are a recurring image in Time's Arrow. Cite three instances where babies appear and describe their significance in the context where they occur; then describe their symbolic significance. What qualities do they represent in Odilo's life? In the narrator's? In the other characters?
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