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

2. What does the narrator mean when he claims, "I became what I am today and what I will always be, a stateless person"?
(a) That the "Nation of Two" that he and his wife created no longer exists because of her death.
(b) That he can never return to Germany because he was a spy for the Americans.
(c) That the concept of statehood is absurd and there should be just one United State, not fifty.
(d) That he can never return to the United States because he wrote propaganda for the Nazis.

3. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?
(a) A coffin of the young man he would never be again.
(b) A time capsule of life before the war.
(c) A nice place for a family of rats to set up housekeeping.
(d) A treasure chest filled with possibilities.

4. What is the misleading title of chapter 23?
(a) Chapter One.
(b) The Last Chapter.
(c) Nothing Interesting Happens after This.
(d) Chapter Six Hundred and Forty-three.

5. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?
(a) The black knight steals it.
(b) Christ appears to the maiden and claims it as his rightful possession.
(c) The maiden secretly hides it in the Ark of the Covenant.
(d) The maiden and the knight have impure thoughts.