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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Comparing himself to Lionel Jones, the narrator insists that he is neither __________ nor __________.
(a) Smart nor good-looking.
(b) Racist nor bigoted.
(c) Ignorant nor insane.
(d) German nor American.

2. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?
(a) Working as an interpreter and file clerk in Siberian POW camp.
(b) Working as an actress in Berlin.
(c) Working on a labor gang in the Ukraine.
(d) Working in a cigarette factory in Dresden.

3. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?
(a) "Abraham" sounds like a Jewish name.
(b) He was sympathetic to non-whites.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He looked Jewish in his photographs.

4. The Blue Fairy Godmother tells the narrator that to do his job right, he will have to:
(a) Commit high treason.
(b) Kill his best friend.
(c) Earn the trust of the leader of a white supremacist group.
(d) Convince everyone he is Jewish.

5. How did the narrator lose Helga?
(a) She died giving birth to their first child.
(b) She left him for another man.
(c) Russian troops seized the area where she was entertaining the troops and she is presumed dead.
(d) She was accused of spying for the Americans and was sent to a prison camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What childish phrase does the Blue Fairy Godmother tell the narrator that he should not expect to hear for himself?

2. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?

3. Which of the following is NOT a symbol that the narrator had drawn in the dust of his windowpanes:

4. What prized possession does Werner Noth fear a slave woman will destroy due to carelessness?

5. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?

(see the answer key)

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