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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 the United States because he wrote propaganda for the Nazis.
(c) That he can never return to Germany because he was a spy for the Americans.
(d) That the concept of statehood is absurd and there should be just one United State, not fifty.

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

4. What is the book, Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova, about?
(a) The lascivious thoughts of a middle-aged family man with a wild imagination.
(b) The narrator and Helga's sex life as a married couple.
(c) A fictional account of Giacomo Casanova's life after he married and settled down.
(d) The working title of a play about a celebrated Nazi commandant.

5. What is George Kraft's real name?
(a) Sebastian Cabot.
(b) Nicholas Sargento.
(c) Iona Potapov.
(d) Milton Pillsbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?

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

3. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?

4. What "gift" does Frank Wirtanen say that the narrator and George Kraft have in common?

5. The narrator is upset when he finds out that Armistice Day had been changed to . . .

(see the answer key)

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