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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Regarding Stepan Bodovskov's finding of the narrator's trunk, Frank Wirtanen says he had a trunkful of . . .
(a) Genius.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Instant career.
(d) The worst writing ever to come out of Germany.

2. To the narrator, the imaginary lines of international borders are as unreal as . . .
(a) Sasquatch and Yeti.
(b) Elves and pixies.
(c) Elvis and the Beatles.
(d) UFOs and space aliens.

3. What is one detail of Resi's post-war life that is true?
(a) She worked in a cigarette factory.
(b) She worked various odd jobs on her way back to Berlin.
(c) She was briefly married to Heinz Schildknecht in hopes that he could put her in touch with the narrator.
(d) She was an interpreter in a Siberian prison camp.

4. What does the narrator mean when he says, "alles kaput"?
(a) His gun misfires and he knows it will never work again.
(b) His reaction when he returns to his home to find it completely ransacked.
(c) When he is arrested and knows he will be turned over to Israeli agents.
(d) Wirtanen's revelation has wiped away his illusions of a friend, a mistress, and a dream.

5. What does Wirtanen think the Russians would do to get the narrator to cooperate?
(a) Threaten to kill Resi.
(b) Torture him.
(c) Threaten to kill him.
(d) Threaten to nuke the U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator lose Helga?

2. Where does Helga claim she located the trunk filled with many of the narrator's things?

3. What snide remark does Resi make as she watches drum majorettes pass by in a parade?

4. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?

5. What fact does the narrator never reveal to his wife?

(see the answer key)

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