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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?
(a) A detached house in a working-class neighborhood in Queens.
(b) A rat-infested attic apartment in Greenwich Village.
(c) An upscale Manhattan condo.
(d) A brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

2. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.
(b) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.
(c) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(d) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.

3. How are Resi and Helga related?
(a) They are mother and daughter.
(b) They are sisters.
(c) They are brother and sister.
(d) They are not related; Resi uses Helga's family name to trick the narrator.

4. Friedmann is the director of what?
(a) The prison where Campbell is incarcerated.
(b) The Nazi S.S.
(c) The Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.
(d) The Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator say his plays were medieval romances and as political as ____________.

2. What is the White Christian Minuteman?

3. What unique symbol is on Campbell's typewriter given to him in the Jerusalem prison?

4. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?

5. How did the narrator lose Helga?

(see the answer key)

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