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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

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. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?
(a) Everything she said was a lie.
(b) She was a nonstop talker.
(c) She only spoke Dutch, a language the narrator does not know.
(d) She never spoke to anyone unless she had to.

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

4. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?
(a) Because of their differing views of the war.
(b) Because of her bizarre behavior.
(c) Because the narrator looked too much like his father, who had left her for a younger woman.
(d) Because his mother did not like Helga.

5. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?
(a) No brothers and seven older sisters.
(b) One brother and two sisters.
(c) One twin brother who died as an infant.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?

2. Where does Helga get the money to be able to reunite with the narrator?

3. What is unusual about Father Keeley's prayer at the Iron Guard meeting?

4. According to Wirtanen, who are the only three people who knew the truth about the narrator's radio broadcasts?

5. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?

(see the answer key)

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