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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator think the Jews are rejuvenated in the back of the vans his unit uses to ferry Jews?
(a) With machine guns.
(b) With Zyklon B pellets.
(c) With electricity.
(d) With carbon monoxide gas.

2. What does Odilo Unverdorben see at Auschwitz when he visits with his family?
(a) Sprinkle rooms and mass graves.
(b) The Holocaust Museum.
(c) Surgical instrument factories.
(d) Old barracks and industrial structures.

3. What does the narrator think of Odilo Unverdorben in his youth?
(a) He is unimpressed.
(b) He thinks he is lazy.
(c) He foresees great things for him.
(d) He hates him for all the things he was about to do.

4. How successful does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's experiments are?
(a) 100%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 75%.

5. Who owns Auschwitz when Odilo Unverdorben visits it with his parents?
(a) The Alsatians.
(b) The Austrians.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Polish.

6. How does the narrator feel when the Schless-Hartheim camp celebrates its 5,000th patient?
(a) He is proud.
(b) He is anxious for even greater achievements.
(c) He is depressed.
(d) He is disgusted with himself and suicidal.

7. What does Odilo Unverdorben's wife think about the work Odilo is doing at the camp?
(a) She loves him for his vision.
(b) She approves of his hard work.
(c) She admires his power to create.
(d) She questions whether it is legal.

8. What is Odilo Unverdorben's family doing when they visit Auschwitz?
(a) Camping.
(b) Touring Holocaust museums.
(c) Looking for someplace to live.
(d) Looking for Odilo's secret life.

9. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's work is?
(a) To purify the Aryan race.
(b) To create human beings out of electricity and fire.
(c) To redeem humanity.
(d) To kill Jewish people.

10. What is Odilo Unverdorben's reasoning for visiting prostitutes?
(a) He wants to be soothed for the horror of his work.
(b) He is intoxicated with his power.
(c) He is despairing for the failure of his marriage.
(d) He says that he loves the human body and all living things.

11. What would Herta do after Odilo Unverdorben would spend hours begging for her attention?
(a) Kiss him.
(b) Offer to live with him.
(c) Make love with him.
(d) Touch him briefly.

12. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when the narrator thinks he returned to married life?
(a) 48 years old.
(b) 63 years old.
(c) 18 years old.
(d) 25 years old.

13. What does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's mother will do when Odilo returns into her body?
(a) Scream that he is gone.
(b) Wish for a girl baby.
(c) Have an abortion.
(d) Commit suicide.

14. What does the narrator believe happens to people after they are "created' at Auschwitz?
(a) They go home on the trains.
(b) They work to make more people.
(c) They are killed in the sprinkle rooms.
(d) They are sent off to work in the camp.

15. What describes Odilo Unverdorben's sex life with his wife while he is working for the Waffen Secret Service?
(a) He is impotent.
(b) He sleeps with prostitutes, not with his wife.
(c) They only make love when they think she might conceive a baby.
(d) They make love all the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the motto of the Schless-Hartheim camp?

2. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?

3. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?

4. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?

5. Where does Herta work when Odilo Unverdorben meets her?

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