1. How did the narrator lose Helga?
(a) Russian troops seized the area where she was entertaining the troops and she is presumed dead.
(b) She died giving birth to their first child.
(c) She left him for another man.
(d) She was accused of spying for the Americans and was sent to a prison camp.

2. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?
(a) "Abraham" sounds like a Jewish name.
(b) He looked Jewish in his photographs.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was sympathetic to non-whites.

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

4. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?
(a) The Hague.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) New York.
(d) Nuremberg.

5. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?
(a) Cries.
(b) Snores and grinds his teeth.
(c) Sleepwalks.
(d) Says the names of two women and talks about a city.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?

2. When the narrator was serving as an American agent, how did he send coded information out of Germany?

3. What childish phrase does the Blue Fairy Godmother tell the narrator that he should not expect to hear for himself?

4. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?

5. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?

(see the answer key)

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