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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 the narrator look forward to in Odilo Unverdorben's work at Auschwitz?
2. How does the narrator feel when Odilo Unverdorben returns to married life in the years before Auschwitz?
3. Where are the patients stacked neatly?
4. How are the men processed at Auschwitz?
5. What does the narrator think the showers are for at Auschwitz?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the irony of the narrator thinking that Odilo Unverdorben and Herta are taking apart baby furniture and un-sewing baby clothes.
2. Describe the similarities and differences between the narrator and Uncle Pepi.
3. What are the conditions the narrator finds when Odile Unverdorben arrives at Auschwitz?
4. How do Odilo Unverdorben's dreams change as he returns (according to the narrator's backward timeline) to his youth?
5. How does the narrator's impression of the killings at Schless-Hartheim increase the reader's sense of sympathy for the people the Nazis killed there?
6. Describe the similarities and differences between Odilo Unverdorben and Uncle Pepi.
7. What is the narrator's last experience before he dies?
8. Describe the narrator's relationship with Odilo Unverdorben by the end of this chapter, at which point Odilo has just arrived at Schless-Hartheim.
9. Describe Odilo Unverdorben's relationship with his father.
10. How does Odilo Unverdorben's language change during his time at Auschwitz?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the narrator's backwards point of view distort our experience of Odilo Unverdorben's life and actions? How does it help to reveal it? Citing specific examples from the text, describe the effect of the narrator's point of view.
Essay Topic 2
What would you have done if you were Odilo Unverdorben's age in Germany when the Nazis were coming to power? Given what you know about the progressively tighter restrictions on Jews' behavior, would you have followed along, or would you have kept yourself apart from the fascism, or would you have resisted it? Cite instances from the book of the kinds of choices you would have faced, and cite instances from your own experience as you discuss how you would have faced them.
Essay Topic 3
Uncle Pepi and Reverend Nicholas Kreditor are the two male characters who affect Odilo's life. Compare and contrast these characters.
1. How are they similar and how are they different?
2. How do they affect Odilo's life? Do they help him? How do they hurt him?
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