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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take three men to build a hut like the one the boy in room 2019 shows Richard?
(a) A week.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 2 days.

2. What authors does Richard think he might read now that he is retired?
(a) Kafka or Balzac.
(b) Flaubert or Gogol.
(c) Proust or Dostoevsky.
(d) Tolstoy or Hesse.

3. Where does Richard remember that his father was sent as a German soldier during the war?
(a) Norway and Russia.
(b) Poland and Czechoslovakia.
(c) Belgium and the Netherlands.
(d) France and Yugoslavia.

4. When did Richard find himself suddenly the citizen of a different country?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1991.

5. How old was Richard when his family left Silesia and resettled in Germany?
(a) An infant.
(b) 2.
(c) A todder.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rashid have a scar?

2. In Chapter 4, what does Richard have for lunch?

3. In Chapter 17, where does a security guard think the refugees may be transferred?

4. On what square do the men gather who stop eating and drinking and are asking to be able to support themselves by working?

5. Where does Richard drive to run errands on Saturday in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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