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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What snide remark does Resi make as she watches drum majorettes pass by in a parade?
(a) That Americans must find war a very sexy thing.
(b) That half of the girls will end up pregnant before they graduate.
(c) That it's not as good as being a cheerleader.
(d) That being able to do high kicks and twirl batons will help the girls be successful in life.

2. What is the book, Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova, about?
(a) A fictional account of Giacomo Casanova's life after he married and settled down.
(b) The narrator and Helga's sex life as a married couple.
(c) The lascivious thoughts of a middle-aged family man with a wild imagination.
(d) The working title of a play about a celebrated Nazi commandant.

3. Why did Resi remove her mittens when she was sitting in the music room?
(a) So she could lend them to a slave woman who was working outside in the cold.
(b) To pet her dog.
(c) Because the mittens made her skin itch.
(d) Because the narrator gave her a new pair.

4. What is one of the first things the narrator says after he wakes up from the beating?
(a) I gotta stop drinking.
(b) Did somebody get the number of the bus that ran over me?
(c) (To Resi) Who are you?
(d) I've joined the Hottentots!

5. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?
(a) Try to just become good friends.
(b) Sue him for divorce and take half of everything he has.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Say goodbye, disappear, and never bother him again.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator tells Epstein's mother that "auf wiedersehen" means "goodbye" in German, but she corrects him by telling him it more precisely means:

2. What is one detail of Resi's post-war life that is true?

3. What is George Kraft frantically searching for when he returns to the narrator's apartment?

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

5. What is the White Christian Minuteman?

(see the answer key)

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