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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 did Six reveal to Pfarr that made him furious?
2. Whose assignment is to go undercover to find the location of the documents that everyone wants?
3. What does the publisher tell Gunther about Reinhard?
4. Where was Mutschmann incarcerated?
5. What does Goering tell Gunther about Von Greis?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gunther find when he goes to Herring's apartment after learning that Bruno is dead?
2. What does Six reveal to Gunther about Grete's background and how it affected her marriage while they travel on the boat to the German Strength headquarters?
3. Describe the German Strength.
4. What does Goering offer Gunther and vice-versa?
5. What does Gunther learn when he visits Tegal Prison?
6. What is the information Gunther has to begin his case involving the murder of teenage girls in Berlin?
7. Describe Bernhard Gunther.
8. What does Gunther find in Haupthandler's apartment and what does this indicate?
9. When Gunther meets with Marlene, what does he learn about Six, Pfarr, and Grete?
10. What does Gunther realize in shock about Grete from seeing the photograph Six gives him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the taboo of homosexuality that still existed at the time Berlin Noir was written in the 1950s. Compare and contrast homosexuality in America during this period to homosexuality in America today. What major changes have occurred concerning the social attitude towards homosexuality in both positive and negative ways?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in Berlin Noir. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.
Essay Topic 3
"He had a nose that looked like it'd gotten more pockmarks in it than every bit of land between the Germans and English at the Somme." Find other examples of simile employed by Philip Kerr in the Berlin Noir that are effective and humorous, revealing interesting details about characters.
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