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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a place the narrator met with the Blue Fairy Godmother?
(a) On a park bench in the Tiergarten in Berlin.
(b) In a dining hall in Wiesbaden.
(c) In his New York apartment.
(d) A vacant shop across the street from Lionel Jones' house.

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

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

4. What characteristics do all the guardsmen at Krapptauer's memorial have in common?
(a) They are all left-handed.
(b) They are all senior citizens.
(c) They are all wearing sweatshirts from Ivy League schools.
(d) They are all blond and over six feet tall.

5. How did the narrator and Helga feel after their homes had been bombed, at least for a moment?
(a) Like Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Like Adam and Eve.
(c) Like there was no more reason to live.
(d) Like Noah and his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What was in the shopping bag of the man who beat up the narrator?

3. What was the title of a play about a young maiden and a knight who guard the Holy Grail?

4. What false name does George Kraft suggest for the narrator?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank Wirtanen say will happen to Jones, Keeley, the Black Fuehrer, and the Iron Guardsmen after the raid?

2. What inspires August Krapptauer to start a youth movement and what is its key aim?

3. Describe the scene at Jones' house after the narrator returns from his meeting with the Blue Fairy Godmother.

4. How does Resi Noth die and what is the reason?

5. What is the Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova and why did the narrator not want it to be published?

6. Describe the narrator's encounter with Adolf Eichmann in the Tel Aviv jail.

7. What does the narrator suggests happened to George Kraft's pipe?

8. Describe the narrator's surroundings when he regains consciousness after being beaten.

9. What is the plot of "The Goblet"?

10. Describe the offensive drawing that Kraft uses for target practice. Why does the narrator say he drew the "ludicrous" cartoon, and what does he himself think about it?

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