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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 George Kraft's real name?
2. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?
3. What is the ironic flaw in the design on the hilt of the narrator's dagger?
4. Where does the narrator say he met Rudolf Hoess?
5. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Western Hemisphere University of the Bible. What kind of courses were taught and how could one earn a degree there?
2. Describe the narrator's and Helga's careers before the war begins, and how do they support each other in their careers?
3. Of what does the Haifa Institute consider Heinz Schildknecht to be an expert and why?
4. What is the significance of the leather strap that Bernard Mengel mentions?
5. Why is Helga presumed to be dead?
6. 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?
7. Why was Lionel Jones sent to prison (before he became acquainted with the narrator), and based on what evidence?
8. What is Abraham Epstein's mother hoping to prove when she speaks to the narrator in German?
9. What does Robert Wilson, the Black Fuehrer of Harlem, mean when he says that he and the narrator were on "opposite" sides? Provide some explanation as to why Wilson chose the side he did.
10. Why had Father Keeley been "unfrocked"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Resi's behavior when the narrator meets her in the music room before going to the front lines. Does Resi's behavior seem appropriate for a child her age? Why or why not? Discuss how Resi's circumstances may have affected her attitudes and behaviors.
Essay Topic 2
Adolf Eichmann says he plans to use the defense that he was just a soldier following orders. Discuss whether this is a sufficient defense in a war crimes hearing or trial.
Essay Topic 3
Adolf Eichmann plans to use the defense that he was just following orders and is, therefore, not personally responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. Discuss this defense and whether it is ever acceptable.
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