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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?
(a) None.
(b) One twin brother who died as an infant.
(c) One brother and two sisters.
(d) No brothers and seven older sisters.

2. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?
(a) Excrement.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Briquets.
(d) Rotten apples.

3. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?
(a) Try to just become good friends.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Sue him for divorce and take half of everything he has.
(d) Say goodbye, disappear, and never bother him again.

4. What fact does the narrator never reveal to his wife?
(a) That he was a spy.
(b) That he was born in the United States.
(c) That he was part Jewish.
(d) That he had cheated on her.

5. What is the war crime that Howard Campbell stands accused of?
(a) Delivering orders of Cyklon-B to the death camps.
(b) Spying on America.
(c) Promoting Nazi propaganda.
(d) Mistreating Allied POWs at a prison camp.

6. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?
(a) She only spoke Dutch, a language the narrator does not know.
(b) Everything she said was a lie.
(c) She was a nonstop talker.
(d) She never spoke to anyone unless she had to.

7. What prized possession does Werner Noth fear a slave woman will destroy due to carelessness?
(a) A Gutenberg Bible.
(b) A blue vase.
(c) A Rembrandt painting.
(d) A grandfather clock.

8. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(b) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.
(c) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.
(d) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.

9. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?
(a) Because of their differing views of the war.
(b) Because his mother did not like Helga.
(c) Because of her bizarre behavior.
(d) Because the narrator looked too much like his father, who had left her for a younger woman.

10. What is one thing that Heinz was willing to do for his motorcycle that he was not willing to do for his wife?
(a) Spend entire weekends together.
(b) Give up smoking.
(c) Buy expensive accessories.
(d) Stand in front of an advancing tank.

11. Besides the United States, Jones says his Minuteman publication has a small circulation in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) West Germany.
(d) Israel.

12. What does the narrator notice about Lionel Jones' hand?
(a) It is missing two fingers.
(b) It is soft and smooth as if Jones had never done any honest labor in his entire life.
(c) He always wears a glove on one, but not the other.
(d) It glitters with rings like the hand of a prince.

13. When the narrator was serving as an American agent, how did he send coded information out of Germany?
(a) In the form of special mannerisms, pauses, coughs, and stumbles during his broadcasts.
(b) By drawing cartoons that revealed a secret message when folded a certain way.
(c) By using acrostics, where the reader would look at the first letter of each word in a newspaper article.
(d) By writing letters to his Native American grandmother in the Navajo language.

14. What is the surprise that Rev. Jones and his entourage present to the narrator?
(a) The FBI.
(b) A pair of Broadway producers who want to produce his play about Nazi Germany.
(c) A woman who appears to be his wife.
(d) Israeli agents.

15. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?
(a) She was blind.
(b) She suffered from dementia and did not know who he was.
(c) Her hair had become snowy white.
(d) She had gained a lot of weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did the narrator take the motorcycle?

2. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?

3. The narrator is a native of which country?

4. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?

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

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