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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 did Richard sell when he was a child at the West Berlin train station Gesundbrunnen?

2. How many friends does Richard see every year at a party his neighbors, Detlef and Sylvia, host?

3. How long does it take three men to build a hut like the one the boy in room 2019 shows Richard?

4. In August, how many men gather in front of Berlin's Town Hall who decide to stop eating and drinking?

5. Where was Awad born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Richard not return to speak to the refugees on Thursday in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

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

6. What is Awad's story?

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

8. What does Richard notice as he is led through the building where the refugees are housed?

9. What happensw when the tents and shacks on the Oranienplatz are torn down?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The refugees not only want to be recognized legally or gain financial security, but they also want to be seen as human beings. How do the refugees struggle to gain agency and find dignity?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of Go, Went Gone? Why is it not history?

Essay Topic 3

The Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany from 1961 to 1989. Why is the Wall and its fall significant to Richard?

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