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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 worked various odd jobs on her way back to Berlin.
(b) She was briefly married to Heinz Schildknecht in hopes that he could put her in touch with the narrator.
(c) She was an interpreter in a Siberian prison camp.
(d) She worked in a cigarette factory.

2. What childish phrase does the Blue Fairy Godmother tell the narrator that he should not expect to hear for himself?
(a) Finders keepers.
(b) Olly-olly-ox-in-free.
(c) Tag! You're it.
(d) I know you are, but what am I?

3. If someone wished to purchase a copy of Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova with color illustrations, how much extra would it cost?
(a) Five pounds Sterling.
(b) Seventy-five Deutschmarks.
(c) Forty rubles.
(d) Forty dollars.

4. 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) Trouble.
(d) Genius.

5. The narrator is upset when he finds out that Armistice Day had been changed to . . .
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Veterans' Day.
(c) Memorial Day.
(d) Independence Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprising revelation does Helga give the narrator after their first night back together?

2. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?

3. What does the narrator mean when he claims, "I became what I am today and what I will always be, a stateless person"?

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

5. What does Wirtanen think the Russians would do to get the narrator to cooperate?

(see the answer key)

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