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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator tells Helga he wants to get a bed like their old one that . . .
(a) Provided really good back support.
(b) Had a headboard like an Italian sunset.
(c) Could fold up into the wall.
(d) Was stuffed with goose down.

2. What does Wirtanen think the Russians would do to get the narrator to cooperate?
(a) Threaten to nuke the U.S.
(b) Threaten to kill Resi.
(c) Torture him.
(d) Threaten to kill him.

3. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?
(a) The White Christian Minuteman.
(b) Hitler's Mein Kampf.
(c) Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" album.
(d) The Bible.

4. What is one detail of Resi's post-war life that is true?
(a) She was briefly married to Heinz Schildknecht in hopes that he could put her in touch with the narrator.
(b) She worked various odd jobs on her way back to Berlin.
(c) She was an interpreter in a Siberian prison camp.
(d) She worked in a cigarette factory.

5. If someone wished to purchase a copy of Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova with color illustrations, how much extra would it cost?
(a) Seventy-five Deutschmarks.
(b) Five pounds Sterling.
(c) Forty rubles.
(d) Forty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?

2. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?

3. Why does Wirtanen say he cannot trust the narrator?

4. What is George Kraft frantically searching for when he returns to the narrator's apartment?

5. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?

(see the answer key)

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