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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard goes to a meeting at the school in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, how long have some refugees been occupying the school?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 11 months.
(d) 8 months.

2. 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.

3. How long ago was Richard's neighbor, Detlef employed as an interior design consultant?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 8 years.

4. How many friends does Richard see every year at a party his neighbors, Detlef and Sylvia, host?
(a) 18-20.
(b) 10-12.
(c) 20-25.
(d) 12-15.

5. When did a man die in the lake?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) July.
(d) May.

6. How tall is the fountain that has terraces arranged like a staircase?
(a) 343 meters.
(b) 205 meters.
(c) 287 meters.
(d) 365 meters.

7. When did Sylvia, Richard's neighbor, fall ill?
(a) 6 months ago.
(b) 3 months ago.
(c) A year ago.
(d) 2 years ago.

8. Where did Richard go on his first work trip after the fall of the Wall?
(a) New York City.
(b) Berne.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

9. How much time in Chapter 9 does Richard spend reading several books about refugees?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 11 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

10. When the lights go off at the occupied school, what is stolen from a refugee?
(a) Books.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Money.
(d) Laptop.

11. How many of Richard's former students are tenured professors?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 4 or 5.
(d) 2 or 3.

12. When Richard enters the area where the refugees are house for the first time, how many young men are sitting holding a cue, but not playing pool?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

13. How many of the refugees who came on a boat with Rashid and Zair drowned?
(a) 800.
(b) 550.
(c) 615.
(d) 490.

14. At what university did Richard teach?
(a) Free University.
(b) Humboldt University.
(c) University of Potsdam.
(d) Berlin University.

15. What contagious disease is discovered at the old nursing home where the refugees are housed?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Ebola.
(c) Measles.
(d) Chickenpox.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long are refugees who come from Italy allowed to stay in Germany?

2. Before Awad came to Germany, how many times had he slept in a tent?

3. In what field did the young woman who teaches the refugees German get her degree?

4. What type of tea does Richard drink every morning?

5. How much is the Senate offering the refugees per night until April?

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