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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Blue Fairy Godmother tells the narrator that to do his job right, he will have to:
(a) Convince everyone he is Jewish.
(b) Earn the trust of the leader of a white supremacist group.
(c) Commit high treason.
(d) Kill his best friend.

2. According to the narrator, what is the only part of a pig that is not used at the Chicago Stockyards?
(a) The hooves.
(b) The squeal.
(c) The tail.
(d) The brain.

3. What "gift" does Frank Wirtanen say that the narrator and George Kraft have in common?
(a) The things they did during the war don't bother them now.
(b) They are creative.
(c) They can be many things at once and all sincerely.
(d) They can live in any country anywhere and it would not matter because one place is as good as another.

4. 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 an interpreter in a Siberian prison camp.
(d) She was briefly married to Heinz Schildknecht in hopes that he could put her in touch with the narrator.

5. For what "crime" was Stepan Bodovskov arrested, tried, and shot?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Originality.
(c) Obscenity.
(d) Plagiarism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is George Kraft frantically searching for when he returns to the narrator's apartment?

3. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?

4. Why does Wirtanen say he cannot trust the narrator?

5. What does the narrator mean when he says, "alles kaput"?

(see the answer key)

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