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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?
(a) Convert to Christianity.
(b) Help settle the new nation of Israel.
(c) Fight back.
(d) Escape from Europe when they had the chance.

3. Where does the narrator first see the woman he thinks is Helga when they are reunited?
(a) In her hospital room.
(b) At the bottom of the stairwell in his building.
(c) Across the room at a party.
(d) On a train platform.

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

5. Arpad Kovacs was personally congratulated by __________, whom he would have killed had he known how important he was.
(a) General George S. Patton.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Adolph Eichmann.
(d) Adolph Hitler.

6. Why did Resi remove her mittens when she was sitting in the music room?
(a) So she could lend them to a slave woman who was working outside in the cold.
(b) Because the mittens made her skin itch.
(c) Because the narrator gave her a new pair.
(d) To pet her dog.

7. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Try to just become good friends.
(c) Say goodbye, disappear, and never bother him again.
(d) Sue him for divorce and take half of everything he has.

8. How did the narrator say he ended up in Germany?
(a) His German wife missed her family and was homesick.
(b) He went there on a college work-study program.
(c) His father was transferred there because of work.
(d) He was working as a war correspondent for the New York Times.

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

10. What does Heinz Schildknecht love above all else?
(a) His wife.
(b) His motorcycle.
(c) His country.
(d) His career.

11. Which of the following is NOT a revelation that Mr. Noth, Helga's father, reveals to the narrator:
(a) He would have had the narrator shot if he found out he was a spy.
(b) He had opposed the marriage between Helga and the narrator.
(c) Helga is not really his daughter.
(d) The narrator made him unashamed to be a Nazi.

12. The Blue Fairy Godmother tells the narrator that to do his job right, he will have to:
(a) Earn the trust of the leader of a white supremacist group.
(b) Commit high treason.
(c) Convince everyone he is Jewish.
(d) Kill his best friend.

13. Friedmann is the director of what?
(a) The Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.
(b) The prison where Campbell is incarcerated.
(c) The Nazi S.S.
(d) The Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.

14. What made Lionel Jones a wealthy man?
(a) The life insurance and estates from his dead wives.
(b) His chain of funeral homes.
(c) The success of two products he invented.
(d) Sales of his newspaper.

15. What prompted the sudden death of August Krapptauer?
(a) Swallowing a capsule of cyanide.
(b) Stepping in front of Jones' limousine.
(c) Carrying luggage up several flights of stairs and apparently suffering a heart attack.
(d) Falling off a balcony.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?

3. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?

4. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?

5. What do the letters "W.H.U.B." stand for?

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