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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. How did Buhler lose his foot?

2. What was the name of Buhler's wife?

3. What does Xavier have for his picnic?

4. What is Walther Fiebes drinking in his office?

5. Where is Xavier's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Max is scared by the Gestapo involvement in Buhler's death?

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

3. What does Xavier learn from Frau Trinkl?

4. What was Rudi Halder's professional career?

5. What is the landlady's opinion of Charlotte Maguire?

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

7. What happened to Paul Han and Magda Voss?

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

9. Why is Charlie already in trouble with the German authorities?

10. How was Stuckart and Maria Dymarski said to have died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Artur Nebe and Globus.

1. What is their relationship to each other?

2. How are their ideas different?

3. How do their differences in opinion prove to be destructive?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 3

The author wrote Fatherland in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

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