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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who informed the Minuteman of the narrator's whereabouts?
(a) George Kraft.
(b) Resi Noth.
(c) Lionel Jones.
(d) Bernard O'Hare.

2. When the narrator was serving as an American agent, how did he send coded information out of Germany?
(a) In the form of special mannerisms, pauses, coughs, and stumbles during his broadcasts.
(b) By using acrostics, where the reader would look at the first letter of each word in a newspaper article.
(c) By drawing cartoons that revealed a secret message when folded a certain way.
(d) By writing letters to his Native American grandmother in the Navajo language.

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

4. Where does the narrator first see the woman he thinks is Helga when they are reunited?
(a) At the bottom of the stairwell in his building.
(b) On a train platform.
(c) In her hospital room.
(d) Across the room at a party.

5. 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) Because the mittens made her skin itch.
(c) To pet her dog.
(d) Because the narrator gave her a new pair.

6. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?
(a) Everything she said was a lie.
(b) She never spoke to anyone unless she had to.
(c) She was a nonstop talker.
(d) She only spoke Dutch, a language the narrator does not know.

7. The narrator claims he didn't really steal his friend's motorcycle, but . . .
(a) Pretended to steal it so his friend could collect the insurance money.
(b) Accidentally backed over it with his car and dumped the motorcycle in the lake to hide the evidence.
(c) Paid for it by leaving money in his friend's boot while he was sleeping.
(d) Borrowed it for all eternity.

8. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?
(a) Working in a cigarette factory in Dresden.
(b) Working on a labor gang in the Ukraine.
(c) Working as an actress in Berlin.
(d) Working as an interpreter and file clerk in Siberian POW camp.

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

10. What do the letters "W.H.U.B." stand for?
(a) Nothing. They are the call letters of a radio station.
(b) White Heterosexuals United by Beliefs.
(c) Women Helping Underprivileged Brethren.
(d) Western Hemisphere University of the Bible.

11. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?
(a) A musical measure in an opera written in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
(b) The working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(c) The last time the crematories at Auschwitz were emptied of bodies before Allied forces freed the camp.
(d) The last train full of Jewish prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz.

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

13. The narrator say his plays were medieval romances and as political as ____________.
(a) Crème Brûlée.
(b) Chocolate éclairs.
(c) Vanilla ice-cream.
(d) Apple pie.

14. Why was Lionel Jones kicked out of dental school?
(a) On suspicion that he deliberately over-anesthetized a Jewish patient, causing her severe brain damage.
(b) Because he used a racial slur against the dean.
(c) Because he plagiarized his dissertation.
(d) Because of scholastic failure and weapons found under his mattress.

15. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?
(a) Snores and grinds his teeth.
(b) Sleepwalks.
(c) Cries.
(d) Says the names of two women and talks about a city.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Resi Noth when the narrator leaves for the front lines?

2. What is the ironic flaw in the design on the hilt of the narrator's dagger?

3. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?

4. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?

5. Where was the narrator born?

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