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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator say he ended up in Germany?
(a) His German wife missed her family and was homesick.
(b) He was working as a war correspondent for the New York Times.
(c) He went there on a college work-study program.
(d) His father was transferred there because of work.

2. What is the narrator's "little Eden"?
(a) The view of Jerusalem from his prison window.
(b) A private park where children play.
(c) His life with Helga.
(d) His inlaws' estate near Berlin.

3. Which country did Robert, the limousine driver, support during the war?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Japan.
(d) England.

4. Which of the following is NOT a revelation that Mr. Noth, Helga's father, reveals to the narrator:
(a) He would have had the narrator shot if he found out he was a spy.
(b) He had opposed the marriage between Helga and the narrator.
(c) The narrator made him unashamed to be a Nazi.
(d) Helga is not really his daughter.

5. With what American expression is the narrator not familiar when he first meets Frank Wirtanen?
(a) Takes one to know one.
(b) Zip it.
(c) None of your beeswax.
(d) What's up, doc?

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?

2. What is George Kraft's real name?

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

4. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?

5. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?

(see the answer key)

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