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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 43-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?
(a) A motorcycle just like the one he borrowed from Heinz.
(b) Her father's blue vase.
(c) The silver-hilted dagger that he had designed himself.
(d) His collected works of poems, stories, plays, letters, and one unpublished book.

2. From whom does the narrator receive a note during the Iron Guard meeting and what does it say?
(a) From his attorney, who says the court will be lenient if he turns himself in now and pleads guilty.
(b) From Helga, saying she really is alive and that she can never forgive her sister for betraying her.
(c) From the man who beat him up at the mailboxes, who says he plans to finish the job after the meeting.
(d) From the Blue Fairy Godmother saying that the narrator's life is in danger.

3. Where does the narrator say he met Rudolf Hoess?
(a) At a New Year's Eve party.
(b) In a bar in Berlin.
(c) On a train to Warsaw.
(d) In the prison exercise yard.

4. What characteristics do all the guardsmen at Krapptauer's memorial have in common?
(a) They are all left-handed.
(b) They are all wearing sweatshirts from Ivy League schools.
(c) They are all blond and over six feet tall.
(d) They are all senior citizens.

5. What was Lionel Jones' chauffeur's nickname?
(a) The Bed-Stuy Mussolini.
(b) The Tojo of Soho.
(c) The Black Fuehrer of Harlem.
(d) The Hitler of Hackensack.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?

2. What made Lionel Jones a wealthy man?

3. What is the narrator's "little Eden"?

4. What does the patrolman tell the narrator that chemicals had caused a woman living nearby to do?

5. What do the narrator and Resi find drawn in blue ink on his mailbox namecard?

(see the answer key)

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