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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Trouble.
(c) Instant career.
(d) Genius.

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

4. 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 the United States because he wrote propaganda for the Nazis.
(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 Germany because he was a spy for the Americans.

5. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?
(a) Ping-pong.
(b) Golf.
(c) Boxing.
(d) Tennis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is George Kraft's real name?

2. How did the narrator lose Helga?

3. What is the "booty" that the narrator and Frank Wirtanen discuss?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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