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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes of the rope that was given to the narrator?
(a) Dr. Epstein uses it to make a tourniquet on the narrator's injured leg to keep him from bleeding to death.
(b) Resi uses it to tie up the narrator's attacker until the police arrive.
(c) A garbage collector uses it to commit suicide.
(d) The narrator uses it to tie their new mattress to the top of a car.

2. What does the narrator say is a "snaggle-toothed thought machine"?
(a) The G-men.
(b) Communism.
(c) A totalitarian mind.
(d) A hate group.

3. What does the man in the bar say is the answer to Communism?
(a) Nuking the Russians.
(b) Moral Rearmament.
(c) Peace, love, and mind-altering drugs.
(d) Capitalism.

4. What was George Kraft using as target practice in Jones' cellar?
(a) Beer bottles.
(b) A portrait of President Kennedy.
(c) A racist caricature of a Jewish man.
(d) The black beetles that crawled on the floor and walls.

5. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?
(a) Christ appears to the maiden and claims it as his rightful possession.
(b) The maiden and the knight have impure thoughts.
(c) The maiden secretly hides it in the Ark of the Covenant.
(d) The black knight steals it.

6. In a note, what does the garbage collector, Lazlo Szombathy, claim he knew how to do?
(a) Bring about world peace.
(b) Cure cancer.
(c) Play golf.
(d) Speak Japanese.

7. How do the schoolteacher's children behave in the bomb shelter?
(a) They cry hysterically.
(b) They scream at their father.
(c) They laugh thinking it's all part of a big game.
(d) They never bat an eye.

8. To what does the narrator compare himself and other cigarette smokers?
(a) Pre-cancerous growths.
(b) Walking chimneys.
(c) Babies with pacifiers.
(d) Lightning bugs.

9. When the narrator is recovering from the beating, where does George Kraft speculate that he, Resi, and the narrator would go?
(a) Australia.
(b) Alaska.
(c) The tropics.
(d) Siberia.

10. What is in the capsule that Resi put in her mouth?
(a) A microchip.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) A 2-karat diamond.
(d) Cyanide.

11. What was the subject of a note Eichmann sends to the narrator when they are both in jail?
(a) Whether the narrator has any stock in the company that made Cyklon-B.
(b) If saying he's sorry will cause the jury to go easy on him.
(c) If the narrator thinks he's a bad person.
(d) Whether having a literary agent is necessary.

12. What false name does George Kraft suggest for the narrator?
(a) Don Juan.
(b) Don Quixote.
(c) Pancho Villa.
(d) Casanova.

13. After the narrator is released from arrest after the raid, what does he say he no longer has that kept him moving through "so many dead and pointless years"?
(a) Money.
(b) Fear.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Love.

14. As the narrator recovers in Lionel Jones' basement, what does Resi tell the narrator Jones has arranged?
(a) For Father Keeley to marry them that afternoon.
(b) To have the narrator surrender himself to Israeli authorities in hopes they will grant him leniency.
(c) For them to leave the country when he is well enough to travel.
(d) For everyone in the group to commit mass suicide.

15. What surprising revelation does Helga give the narrator after their first night back together?
(a) She is not Helga at all; she is actually Resi.
(b) Their seventeen-year-old son is waiting in a nearby coffee shop.
(c) She has come to serve him with divorce papers.
(d) She is there to spy on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lionel Jones claim his organization is doing that the G-man is not?

2. If someone wished to purchase a copy of Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova with color illustrations, how much extra would it cost?

3. What are Resi, Father Keeley, and the Black Fuehrer doing when the narrator returns from his meeting with Frank Wirtanen?

4. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?

5. What had been the garbage man's profession before coming to America?

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