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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. What is inside the parcel?
(a) A letter-bomb.
(b) Documents.
(c) A manuscript.
(d) A box of chocolates.

2. Where is Xavier's apartment?
(a) Rhinower Strasse.
(b) Sewanstrasse.
(c) Ansbacher Strasse.
(d) Oranienstrasse.

3. Who is the first person Xavier calls on discovering the identity of the body?
(a) Klara.
(b) Josef Buhler.
(c) Hermann Jost.
(d) Max Jaeger.

4. Who had been shot while Xavier was out by the Havel?
(a) A Gestapo official.
(b) A newly married couple.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A woman and child.

5. What does Xavier find by the jetty?
(a) A china doll.
(b) A dead swan.
(c) A dead body.
(d) An artificial foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is written in Buhler's diary on the day before he died?

2. Who does Globus now work for?

3. Which department has Stuckart's file?

4. Where had Churchill fled to in 1944?

5. Who had discovered the bodies of Stuckart and his mistress?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three possible solutions Xavier poses as solutions to Buhler's death?

2. How has the Unter den Linden changed since 1936 in the novel?

3. What role in the art-smuggling ring did Stuckart play?

4. Describe Xavier March's apartment.

5. What is the Pimpf, and why is Pili proud to be a part of it?

6. Why does Willi Stiefel agree to work with Max and Xavier?

7. Why has Stuckart's death been transferred to the sexual crimes division?

8. Why is Xavier March known as 'the fox' instead of 'grey wolf'?

9. What happened to Paul Han and Magda Voss?

10. What is inside the package Xavier takes from Buhler's mailbox?

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