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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gartenschläger arrested for stealing?

2. Who is the only traveler at the checkpoint that the Narrator sees by the border at Heinrich Heine Strasse?

3. Where does Gartenschläger have difficulty living?

4. Who is the Narrator's aunt?

5. How long of a prison sentence does Bolle receive from a West Berlin court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Lena's relationships with men prior to meeting the Narrator?

2. How is Gartenschläger caught and killed?

3. What does Robert observe about capitalism when he goes to check car models with the Narrator?

4. What amazes the Narrator about his cousin's behavior in Dresden?

5. Why does Gartenschläger attempt to get a self-triggering robot?

6. What is the difference in the experiences that Pommerer and the Narrator have in 1945 with the Russians and Americans respectively?

7. How do Pommerer and the Narrator differ on their views of East and West German workers?

8. How does Bolle become a double agent for the DDR?

9. Why does Pommerer believe his phone troubles are linked to a protest he did?

10. What is the similarity in the news reporting of the strike in Poland that both Pommerer and the Narrator observe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pommerer and The Narrator are two of the most active characters in discussing their social and political beliefs.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Pommerer had a direct influence upon? What are some events that The Narrator had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support or sympathy to people that attempt to jump the Wall? Which one is stronger and why?

Essay Topic 2

The Narrator uses more than one iteration on the theme of loss. Identify at least two themes about loss in the stories he shares in "The Wall Jumper". Then cite an example to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Love and sexuality between the Narrator and Lena is a recurring theme. How does the Narrator's feelings about love change from the beginning of the novel to its end? In what ways has he expanded his awareness and beliefs? Is sexuality connected to love for the Narrator? How does his feelings for Lena develop and change and how does his relationship with her contrast with that of other women that he has had romantic feelings for or an idealized relationship with?

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