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

2. Where do the first male refugees Richard is introduced to come from?

3. After the fall of the Wall, when would Richard and his wife walk in one of Kreuzberg's Western districts?

4. When Richard goes to a meeting at the school in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, how long have some refugees been occupying the school?

5. What fountain did Richard like to sit at the edge of between lectures when he was a student in the 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Richard learn when he reads the document signed by the Berlin Senate and the Africans?

3. What is Awad's story?

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

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

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

7. How does Richard spend the next two weeks in Chapter 5?

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

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

10. What is Eid Mubarak and how is it celebrated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Refugees are individuals who are forced to leave their country to escape war, persecution, or natural disasters. What role did war play in making the men refugees whom Richard comes to know?

Essay Topic 2

Richard experiences a shift in his perspective and how he views the world as he gets to know the refugees. What does he mean when he is reminded by his visits with the refugees, "that one person's vantage point is just as valid as another's, and in seeing, there is no right, no wrong" (55).

Essay Topic 3

Personification is a literary device that assigns human qualities—such as emotions or behaviors—to objects, animals, or ideas. How does Erpenbeck use personification in Go, Went, Gone?

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