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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. What does Herta know about Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
2. How does the narrator think Odilo Unverdorben's father would take away Odilo's pain?
3. How does the narrator feel when Odilo Unverdorben returns to married life in the years before Auschwitz?
4. How successful does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's experiments are?
5. Which answer describes Odilo Unverdorben's German at the end of his time at Auschwitz?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben in the years before/after Odilo began to work in the camps.
2. Describe the similarities and differences between the narrator and Uncle Pepi.
3. Describe the similarities and differences between Odilo Unverdorben and Uncle Pepi.
4. What are the conditions the narrator finds when Odile Unverdorben arrives at Auschwitz?
5. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben by the end of this chapter, at which point Odilo has just arrived at Schless-Hartheim.
6. What is the narrator's last experience before he dies?
7. 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.
8. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his father.
9. What does the narrator think about Auschwitz when he sees it through Odilo Unverdorben's thirteen-year-old eyes?
10. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's work in the Waffen Secret Service.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Men and women have different perspectives on the events of this book.
1. How do men's and women's perspectives differ? How are they similar? How would you characterize men's perspectives, and how would you characterize women's? Do individuals have both male and female characteristics?
2. Where do men's and women's perspectives and values come into conflict? Whose values or whose power wins those conflicts?
Essay Topic 2
How does the narrator's attempt to make sense of Odilo Unverdorben's life parallel our attempts to make sense of the Holocaust? Do we live the Holocaust backwards the way he does? Does his emotional experience of the Holocaust coincide with ours? Are we just as emotionally detached? Give examples from the book as well as from your studies of the Holocaust
Essay Topic 3
By the time he gets to America as John Young and then Tod Friendly, Odilo Unverdorben is on a mission to redeem himself.
1. Whose forgiveness does he seek? Does he attain it from them? Why or why not?
2. Who would Odilo have had to go to, to get forgiveness? Is there anyone with authority who could absolve him of his actions?
3. Is it enough that Odilo tries to redeem himself? Do his actions balance each other? Why or why not?
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