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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Lionel Jones kicked out of dental school?
(a) Because he plagiarized his dissertation.
(b) Because of scholastic failure and weapons found under his mattress.
(c) Because he used a racial slur against the dean.
(d) On suspicion that he deliberately over-anesthetized a Jewish patient, causing her severe brain damage.

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 Serenity Prayer.
(c) The Boy Scout motto.
(d) The American Pledge of Allegiance.

3. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?
(a) The last train full of Jewish prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz.
(b) A musical measure in an opera written in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
(c) The last time the crematories at Auschwitz were emptied of bodies before Allied forces freed the camp.
(d) The working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.

4. The narrator claims he didn't really steal his friend's motorcycle, but . . .
(a) Accidentally backed over it with his car and dumped the motorcycle in the lake to hide the evidence.
(b) Pretended to steal it so his friend could collect the insurance money.
(c) Paid for it by leaving money in his friend's boot while he was sleeping.
(d) Borrowed it for all eternity.

5. What grim task does Werner Noth ask the narrator to do?
(a) Help him compose an eloquent suicide note.
(b) Burn the carcass of his favorite horse before slave laborers begin to feast upon it.
(c) Give him a ride to Berlin so he can attend his best friend's funeral.
(d) Shoot Resi's dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?

2. What does the narrator do with his broom?

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

4. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?

5. The narrator say his plays were medieval romances and as political as ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Andor Gutman give for thinking that the position of "corpse-carrier" would be a good job?

2. Describe Resi's reaction to the news that her dog must be killed.

3. Describe the Western Hemisphere University of the Bible. What kind of courses were taught and how could one earn a degree there?

4. What happened to members of the Sonderkommando when their job was done? How were they replaced?

5. Explain why the narrator thinks Helga is "amazingly well-preserved."

6. What is Abraham Epstein's mother hoping to prove when she speaks to the narrator in German?

7. Why is Helga presumed to be dead?

8. Briefly explain the "Nation of Two" the narrator frequently mentions. What is its original meaning and what does it signify to the narrator personally?

9. Describe the narrator's mother and what is the "queer demonstration" she gives?

10. How and where does the narrator learn the lurid details of his father-in-law's death and what does the narrator find troubling about the article, besides the fact that it is about the death of someone he knows?

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