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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. How many Hungarian Jews are at Auschwitz when Herta visits?
2. What is Odilo Unverdorben's family doing when they visit Auschwitz?
3. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz now that he is seeing it again in Odilo Unverdorben's youth?
4. What is the name of Odilo Unverdorben's wife?
5. What does the narrator think of Odilo Unverdorben in his youth?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his mother.
2. As Odilo Unverdorben ages, how is the narrator affected by his time at Auschwitz?
3. How does the killing change from Schless-Hartheim to Auschwitz?
4. How does the narrator's relationship with Herta progress?
5. How does Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with Herta change when he arrives at Schless-Hartheim?
6. 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?
7. How is the narrator right about Odilo Unverdorben's personality as a young man?
8. What are the conditions the narrator finds when Odile Unverdorben arrives at Auschwitz?
9. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?
10. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben by the end of this chapter, at which point Odilo has just arrived at Schless-Hartheim.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The narrator feels an almost religious awe at Uncle Pepi's power to create people.
1. Who else seems to have this power, and how do they use it? What are the effects of this power?
2. Are there any instances where characters resist this sense of awe with reason or pragmatism or some other form of understanding that protects them?
3. Is respect for that power a historical fact that was only exhibited in the Holocaust and select other historical instances? Or is respect for that power a stage of development, which has to be followed by regret and acts of contrition? Cite specific examples from the text in your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Babies are a recurring image in Time's Arrow. Cite three instances where babies appear and describe their significance in the context where they occur; then describe their symbolic significance. What qualities do they represent in Odilo's life? In the narrator's? In the other characters?
Essay Topic 3
The motto at Schless-Hertheim is "There is such a thing as life that is not worthy of life." Is this motto reinforced by the events that take place after the war? Is it undermined?
1. Cite specific instances from the text where characters support or contradict this motto.
2. Are characters conflicted within themselves about this idea? How do they resolve this internal conflict?
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