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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. Who considers themselves superior based on clothing, accessories and language?
(a) West Germans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Russians.
(d) East Germans.

2. How many times has Kabe jumped the Wall?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

3. What do BRD politicians emphasize regarding East and West Germany?
(a) Separation.
(b) Reunification.
(c) War.
(d) Alienation.

4. What is Lena's family concerned about regarding West Berlin and the West in general?
(a) Whether they will lose.
(b) Whether life is livable.
(c) Whether they will fit in.
(d) Whether they will suffer.

5. What do Western publicity folk strive to avoid according to the Narrator?
(a) Self-criticism.
(b) Self-praise.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Self-doubt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who among the jumpers goes West to become a lumberjack?

2. Whose company does the Narrator enjoy until he dies at 70?

3. In what building does Lena find peace in that politics has not touched?

4. In the Narrator's dream, what does he fall overboard from?

5. Where was Kabe sent because he jumped the Wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Wolf Biermann, mentioned in Chapter 1, and how is he described?

2. What are the Narrator's neighbors in Berlin like?

3. How does the Narrator describe Kabe?

4. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs who visits Pommerer have to say about solidarity?

5. How does the Narrator describe Gerhard Schlater?

6. How is the difference in the importance of the Wall shown in Western and Eastern maps?

7. What does the Narrator notice about Soviet propaganda compared to that of the West while traveling with Pommerer?

8. Describe Berlin from the Narrator's point of view in the airplane.

9. How do the DDR and the Western television reflect bias when it comes to news reporting?

10. How does the Narrator view the East from the S-Bahn train station?

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