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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 was the name of Charlie's father?

2. Who answers the phone in Xavier's apartment?

3. What whiskey does Charlie send to Xavier?

4. Which is the smallest Jewish community mentioned?

5. What does Xavier shout out to Globus as he is being tortured?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Xavier think of as he waits to leave Switzerland?

2. Why does Nebe allow Xavier to go to Switzerland?

3. What do Xavier and Charlie discover in Luther's doctor's bag?

4. Why does Nebe consider Xavier an irony?

5. How does Xavier try to justify parking in front of the Great Hall?

6. What is Luther's plan?

7. What happens when after Luther appears?

8. Why does Xavier's passport confuse the customs official?

9. Why does Henry not think that Luther will be granted asylum?

10. Why is Xavier complimentary of Globus on the phone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the twist ending. Do you think Max Jaeger's betrayal was inevitable? Choose one scene in the book involving both Max and Xavier and discuss how the twist ending changes your perception of that scene.

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