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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. 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 says that he loves the human body and all living things.
(d) He is despairing for the failure of his marriage.

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

3. Where are the patients stacked neatly?
(a) In the sprinkle rooms.
(b) In the barracks.
(c) In the ovens.
(d) In the ox carts.

4. What does Odilo Unverdorben dream about as a young child?
(a) Colors and noises.
(b) The man in the white coat.
(c) The war.
(d) His mother.

5. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father is going to kill him?
(a) By giving Odilo a fatal case of pneumonia.
(b) By inseminating Odilo's mother.
(c) By casting him out in an exorcism.
(d) By beating Odilo to death as an infant.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which front does Odilo Unverdorben serve in the Waffen Secret Service?

2. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's work is?

3. How often does Odilo Unverdorben spend time with Herta at Schless-Hartheim?

4. Whose work does the narrator believe Odilo Unverdorben is doing?

5. How does the narrator look back at his own experience from the perspective of Odilo Unverdorben's time at Schless-Hartheim?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?

2. How does the narrator's relationship with Herta progress?

3. How does Odilo Unverdorben's language change during his time at Auschwitz?

4. The narrator and Uncle Pepi both see the work at Auschwitz as 100% successful. How does their agreement, from such different viewpoints, affect the reader?

5. How do Odilo Unverdorben's dreams change as he returns (according to the narrator's backward timeline) to his youth?

6. Describe the similarities and differences between the narrator and Uncle Pepi.

7. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his father.

8. What is the importance of Odilo Unverdorben's childhood home?

9. What is the narrator's last experience before he dies?

10. The narrator is usually just stuck with his backward perspective. Describe a case where he creates his own explanations and has to explain things to himself.

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