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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the narrator born?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York City.
(c) Schenectady, New York.
(d) Berlin.

2. What surprising revelation does Helga give the narrator after their first night back together?
(a) She has come to serve him with divorce papers.
(b) She is there to spy on him.
(c) She is not Helga at all; she is actually Resi.
(d) Their seventeen-year-old son is waiting in a nearby coffee shop.

3. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?
(a) Escape from Europe when they had the chance.
(b) Convert to Christianity.
(c) Fight back.
(d) Help settle the new nation of Israel.

4. What is the misleading title of chapter 23?
(a) Nothing Interesting Happens after This.
(b) Chapter One.
(c) Chapter Six Hundred and Forty-three.
(d) The Last Chapter.

5. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?
(a) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.
(b) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(c) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.
(d) Prisoners return to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Resi's dog and Mrs. Noth have "fat" bellies?

2. What was unique about Arndt Klopfer's photography?

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

4. What was in the shopping bag of the man who beat up the narrator?

5. Who does the Blue Fairy Godmother say are communist agents?

(see the answer key)

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