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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. How long was the Easter German government in existence?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 23 years.
(c) 27 years.
(d) 35 years.

2. Where does Rashid have a scar?
(a) Across his forehead.
(b) Right hand.
(c) Under his eye.
(d) Left arm.

3. What day of the week did a man die in the lake?
(a) Friday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Saturday.

4. What is the speed limit in front of the nursing home where the refugees are housed?
(a) 15 miles. an hour.
(b) 45 miles an hour.
(c) 35 miles an hour.
(d) 20 miles an hour.

5. When was the Wall torn down in Berlin?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the archaeologist friend who Richard calls in Chapter 4?

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

3. How old was Richard when his family left Silesia and resettled in Germany?

4. Where was Awad born?

5. Where is the young woman from who teaches the refugees German?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is no one at the lake that Richard can see from the desk in his home office?

2. What is Richard's situation at the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. What is Awad's story?

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

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

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

7. Why does Awad know he will never forget Oranineplatz and will always revere its memory?

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

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

10. What did Richard used to sell as a child, and why?

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