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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. What is Mulack-Ritze?
(a) A book.
(b) A bridge.
(c) A tavern.
(d) A port city.

2. Doug is impressed by Charlotte's ______________________________.
(a) Gourmet cooking skills.
(b) Collection of antique dolls.
(c) Mastery of six languages.
(d) Survival as a transvestite during the Third Reich.

3. What type of building to Doug and John visit?
(a) Farmhouse.
(b) Mansion.
(c) Townhouse.
(d) Office.

4. Who confronts Charlotte in an air raid shelter during the war?
(a) SS officers.
(b) American soldiers.
(c) Former school friends.
(d) Red Cross workers.

5. When was the museum tavern open?
(a) Weekends.
(b) Holidays.
(c) Friday and Saturday nights.
(d) Sunday afternoons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were frequent patrons of Mulack-Ritze?

2. What is die Gr'nderzeit?

3. What did Charlotte's aunt never wear?

4. Who invented the phonograph?

5. How did Charlotte say she escaped from the Youth Prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is John hesitant to interview Charlotte himself?

2. Who is John Marks and what is his relevance to the story?

3. How does Charlotte explain the museum in "Das Gr'nderzeit Museum?"

4. What does the author, Doug Wright, explore in the first five sections of I AM MY OWN WIFE?

5. What does Charlotte tell Doug about her childhood?

6. How is Charlotte described?

7. How is Charlotte described and what is the thing that distinguishes her as a man?

8. How did Tante Luise scare Charlotte's father into leaving his family alone while at her home?

9. What is contained in the velvet jewelry box Charlotte places on a table?

10. How does Charlotte come to kill her father?

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