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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 time does the station clock read at Treblinka when Odilo Unverdorben sees it?
(a) 12:40.
(b) 13:27.
(c) 4:31.
(d) 1:04.
2. 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.
3. How does the narrator feel about Odilo Unverdorben's father?
(a) He is afraid that the father hates Odilo.
(b) He looks forward to returning into the father's body as sperm.
(c) He cannot forgive Odilo's father for killing him.
(d) He is happy about returning to a healthy, strong man.
4. Where do the bodies come from that the narrator thinks are rejuvenated in the back of the vans?
(a) Ghettos.
(b) Cemeteries.
(c) Ovens.
(d) Mass graves.
5. What describes Odilo Unverdorben's sex life with his wife while he is working for the Waffen Secret Service?
(a) They make love all the time.
(b) They only make love when they think she might conceive a baby.
(c) He sleeps with prostitutes, not with his wife.
(d) He is impotent.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator think of Odilo Unverdorben in his youth?
2. What is Odilo Unverdorben's reasoning for visiting prostitutes?
3. What does the narrator think the patients feel about being gathered at Auschwitz?
4. Which answer describes Odilo Unverdorben's German at the end of his time at Auschwitz?
5. What does the narrator believe happens to people after they are "created' at Auschwitz?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Odilo Unverdorben's dreams change as he returns (according to the narrator's backward timeline) to his youth?
2. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben's father.
3. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?
4. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his mother.
5. How does Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Herta change when he arrives at Schless-Hartheim?
6. How is the narrator right about Odilo Unverdorben's personality as a young man?
7. 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?
8. What is the importance of Odilo Unverdorben's childhood home?
9. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's work in the Waffen Secret Service.
10. How does the narrator describe the Jews' experiences at Auschwitz?
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