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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator look forward to in Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
(a) The sleep-like peace of the dead people.
(b) The piles of gold and property.
(c) The first signs of life in the people they created.
(d) The purification of the human body in fire.

4. Where does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's unit ferries Jews to and from?
(a) To the ghettos from their villages.
(b) To Auschwitz from Salerno, Italy.
(c) To their villages from the ghettos.
(d) To Treblinka from Auschwitz.

5. How does Odilo Unverdorben travel through Germany?
(a) In troop carriers.
(b) By motorcycle.
(c) By truck.
(d) By hitchhiking.

6. Whose work does the narrator believe Odilo Unverdorben is doing?
(a) God's.
(b) Humanity's.
(c) Uncle Pepi's.
(d) His own.

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

8. How does the narrator feel when Odilo Unverdorben returns to married life in the years before Auschwitz?
(a) He suffers terribly.
(b) His loyalties are split between Herta and Uncle Pepi.
(c) He feels redeemed.
(d) He is relieved.

9. How does the narrator feel about Uncle Pepi?
(a) He is in awe of him.
(b) He is disgusted by him.
(c) He is appalled by his ability to create.
(d) He envies his power.

10. Which answer describes Odilo Unverdorben's German at the end of his time at Auschwitz?
(a) Faltering and inaccurate.
(b) Moderately fluent.
(c) Grammatically flawed.
(d) Surprisingly accurate.

11. How often does Odilo Unverdorben spend time with Herta at Schless-Hartheim?
(a) She visits when she could.
(b) She lives with him there.
(c) She lives with him for a month at a time.
(d) She hardly ever visits him there.

12. Where would Odilo Unverdorben and Herta secretly kiss while they were courting?
(a) In the office where she worked.
(b) In her parents' house.
(c) In the stairway.
(d) In the train station

13. Why is the narrator sad as Odilo Unverdorben gets younger?
(a) He is afraid of being inside of Odilo's mother as a baby.
(b) He dreams about dead Jews trying to kill him.
(c) He knows that he is going to die when Odilo is born.
(d) He thinks that he will miss his chance to get Odilo to repent.

14. Where does Odilo Unverdorben grow up?
(a) Munich.
(b) Schless-Hartheim.
(c) Inverness.
(d) Solingen.

15. What is Odilo Unverdorben's mother's job?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Real estate agent.
(d) Milliner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of irony does the author use by letting the narrator know things none of the other characters knows?

2. The narrator says that he loves Herta as much as whom?

3. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi uses to bring dead patients back to life?

4. How old is Odilo Unverdorben when he visits Auschwitz for the first time?

5. Where are the patients stacked neatly?

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