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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. In Chapter 17, where does a security guard think the refugees may be transferred?
(a) Dahmsdorf.
(b) 5 miles outside Buckow.
(c) Hasenholz.
(d) 5 miles outside Ruhlsdorf.

2. What does Richard listen to when he eats breakfast in Chapter 8?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Strauss.
(c) Bach.
(d) Mozart.

3. How many pages did Richard write when he turned to work to get over his disappointment that his lover was cheating on him?
(a) 110.
(b) 85.
(c) Nearly 200.
(d) Almost 100.

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

5. How did Awad earn 80 euros when he was in Italy?
(a) Cleaning a kitchen and washing dishes.
(b) Bailing hay.
(c) Mucking out a pig pen.
(d) Cleaning a garage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What languages do the men speak who gather in front of Berlin's Town Hall?

3. After lunch on a rainy day in Chapter 4, how long of a nap does Richard take?

4. When the lights go off at the occupied school, what is stolen from a refugee?

5. What is the speed limit in front of the nursing home where the refugees are housed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the refugees upset when it is proposed that they be moved to a facility about five miles outside Buckow?

2. Why does Richard go to a former school in Kreuzberg?

3. How old was Richard when his family left Silesia and resettled in Germany, and how was he separated and then reunited with his family?

4. Why does the woman who teaches German classes to the refugees think it is difficult for them to learn the language?

5. Who teaches German to the refugees housed at the old nursing home?

6. What does the boy Richard calls Apollo tell Richard about himself?

7. What is Awad's story?

8. What habit did Richard and his wife get into after the fall of the Wall?

9. Why do some Black men gather in front of Berlin's Town Hall in late August?

10. What is Richard's morning routine?

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