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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason the magazine article states that the slave laborers hanged Werner Noth?
(a) Because of the severe beating he gave the woman who dropped a vase.
(b) Because the Russians ordered them to do it.
(c) For the satisfaction of hanging someone important.
(d) As just desserts for all the hangings he had ordered as chief of police.

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

3. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?
(a) The Boy Scout motto.
(b) The Serenity Prayer.
(c) The American Pledge of Allegiance.
(d) A song from the Brownies girls' club.

4. Which country did Robert, the limousine driver, support during the war?
(a) Japan.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

5. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?
(a) A musical measure in an opera written in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
(b) The last train full of Jewish prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz.
(c) The working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(d) The last time the crematories at Auschwitz were emptied of bodies before Allied forces freed the camp.

6. What is the ironic flaw in the design on the hilt of the narrator's dagger?
(a) The eagle looks more like a turkey.
(b) The stars are six pointed, like the Star of David, not five pointed American stars.
(c) The stars are in a pattern similar to that of a Confederate battle flag.
(d) The silversmith put a peace symbol where a swastika is supposed to be.

7. What does Helga say is the reason she did not get in touch with the narrator when she learned of his whereabouts?
(a) Her sister had lied to her and said that he wouldn't be interested in seeing her.
(b) She had hoped the narrator had built a new life.
(c) She had taken another lover by then and did not want to hurt him.
(d) She did not have enough money to send a telegram or even buy a stamp for a letter.

8. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?
(a) A brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
(b) An upscale Manhattan condo.
(c) A rat-infested attic apartment in Greenwich Village.
(d) A detached house in a working-class neighborhood in Queens.

9. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?
(a) A print of Picasso's Guernica.
(b) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.
(c) A picture history of the First World War.
(d) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.

10. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?
(a) Rudolph Hoess.
(b) Abraham Epstein's mother.
(c) Major Frank Wirtanen.
(d) Helga Noth.

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

12. Why was Lionel Jones kicked out of dental school?
(a) Because of scholastic failure and weapons found under his mattress.
(b) Because he plagiarized his dissertation.
(c) Because he used a racial slur against the dean.
(d) On suspicion that he deliberately over-anesthetized a Jewish patient, causing her severe brain damage.

13. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?
(a) Radio talk show host.
(b) Owner of a fake divinity school.
(c) Inventor.
(d) Failed dental student.

14. What grim task does Werner Noth ask the narrator to do?
(a) Give him a ride to Berlin so he can attend his best friend's funeral.
(b) Burn the carcass of his favorite horse before slave laborers begin to feast upon it.
(c) Help him compose an eloquent suicide note.
(d) Shoot Resi's dog.

15. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?
(a) Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech.
(b) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
(c) His own "Do you want total war?" speech.
(d) Christ's Sermon on the Mount.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?

2. What does Heinz Schildknecht love above all else?

3. What is one thing that Heinz was willing to do for his motorcycle that he was not willing to do for his wife?

4. The narrator say his plays were medieval romances and as political as ____________.

5. Which city does the narrator say was "Hell" or "Purgatory" for him?

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