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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unique symbol is on Campbell's typewriter given to him in the Jerusalem prison?
(a) A swastika.
(b) A Star of David.
(c) Twin lightning strokes that symbolized the Nazi S.S.
(d) The yin and yang symbol.

2. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?
(a) A song from the Brownies girls' club.
(b) The Boy Scout motto.
(c) The Serenity Prayer.
(d) The American Pledge of Allegiance.

3. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?
(a) A picture history of the First World War.
(b) A print of Picasso's Guernica.
(c) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.
(d) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.

4. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?
(a) Working as an actress in Berlin.
(b) Working as an interpreter and file clerk in Siberian POW camp.
(c) Working on a labor gang in the Ukraine.
(d) Working in a cigarette factory in Dresden.

5. Arpad Kovacs says he joined the Nazi S.S. The S.S. is famous for being what?
(a) The only branch of the Nazi party that allowed Jews in its ranks.
(b) The group that cooperated with Allied forces to kill Hitler.
(c) The most fanatical wing of Nazism.
(d) A spy organization.

6. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?
(a) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.
(b) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.
(c) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.
(d) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.

7. How does Mr. Noth die?
(a) Hanged by slave laborers.
(b) In a death camp.
(c) Murdered by the assistant chief of police who wanted his job.
(d) Burned to death when his house is bombed.

8. Which city does the narrator say was "Hell" or "Purgatory" for him?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Schenectady.
(c) Berlin.
(d) New York.

9. The narrator tells Epstein's mother that "auf wiedersehen" means "goodbye" in German, but she corrects him by telling him it more precisely means:
(a) Go with God.
(b) Both hello and goodbye.
(c) Peace be upon you.
(d) Until we meet again.

10. When the narrator does not want to discuss politics when they are alone in his apartment, what does he ask Helga to ask him about instead?
(a) Religion.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Music.

11. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?
(a) Howard Campbell's defense attorney.
(b) The director of the Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(c) The Commandant of Auschwitz.
(d) The Nazi Minister of Propaganda.

12. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) The Hague.
(c) Nuremberg.
(d) New York.

13. How did the narrator lose Helga?
(a) She was accused of spying for the Americans and was sent to a prison camp.
(b) She left him for another man.
(c) She died giving birth to their first child.
(d) Russian troops seized the area where she was entertaining the troops and she is presumed dead.

14. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?
(a) Snores and grinds his teeth.
(b) Says the names of two women and talks about a city.
(c) Cries.
(d) Sleepwalks.

15. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?
(a) By selling valuables he had stolen from Germans during the war.
(b) From the interest earned on an inheritance left to him by his parents.
(c) By writing articles for The White Christian Minuteman.
(d) By selling chess sets he carves from wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Comparing himself to Lionel Jones, the narrator insists that he is neither __________ nor __________.

2. What childish phrase does the Blue Fairy Godmother tell the narrator that he should not expect to hear for himself?

3. What does the narrator notice about Lionel Jones' hand?

4. How are Resi and Helga related?

5. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?

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