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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 he can never return to the United States because he wrote propaganda for the Nazis.
(b) That the concept of statehood is absurd and there should be just one United State, not fifty.
(c) That the "Nation of Two" that he and his wife created no longer exists because of her death.
(d) That he can never return to Germany because he was a spy for the Americans.

2. From whom did the narrator take the motorcycle?
(a) His father-in-law.
(b) Heinz Schildknecht.
(c) Resi Noth.
(d) George Kraft.

3. What is the actual destination that Lionel Jones arranges for the narrator and the others to go as soon as the narrator is well enough to travel?
(a) Rio de Janeiro.
(b) Ho Chi Minh City.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) Johannesburg.

4. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?
(a) Christ appears to the maiden and claims it as his rightful possession.
(b) The maiden secretly hides it in the Ark of the Covenant.
(c) The maiden and the knight have impure thoughts.
(d) The black knight steals it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main reason the Iron Guard boys have their mothers alter their suits instead of going to a tailor?

2. From whom does the narrator receive a note during the Iron Guard meeting and what does it say?

3. What snide remark does Resi make as she watches drum majorettes pass by in a parade?

4. When the narrator does not want to discuss politics when they are alone in his apartment, what does he ask Helga to ask him about instead?

5. What was Lionel Jones' chauffeur's nickname?

(see the answer key)

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