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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Lionel Jones a wealthy man?
(a) The life insurance and estates from his dead wives.
(b) The success of two products he invented.
(c) Sales of his newspaper.
(d) His chain of funeral homes.

2. What does the narrator mean when he claims, "I became what I am today and what I will always be, a stateless person"?
(a) That he can never return to Germany because he was a spy for the Americans.
(b) That the concept of statehood is absurd and there should be just one United State, not fifty.
(c) That the "Nation of Two" that he and his wife created no longer exists because of her death.
(d) That he can never return to the United States because he wrote propaganda for the Nazis.

3. 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) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(b) Prisoners return to work.
(c) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.
(d) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.

4. 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.

5. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?
(a) No brothers and seven older sisters.
(b) One twin brother who died as an infant.
(c) None.
(d) One brother and two sisters.

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

7. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?
(a) Owner of a fake divinity school.
(b) Inventor.
(c) Radio talk show host.
(d) Failed dental student.

8. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?
(a) The Hague.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) New York.
(d) Nuremberg.

9. What secret does Resi reveal to the narrator before he leaves for the front lines?
(a) That Helga had left the narrator for another man.
(b) That she is in love with him.
(c) That she knows that Helga is still alive.
(d) That she is pregnant with his baby.

10. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(b) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.
(c) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.
(d) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.

11. What is the ironic flaw in the design on the hilt of the narrator's dagger?
(a) The silversmith put a peace symbol where a swastika is supposed to be.
(b) The eagle looks more like a turkey.
(c) The stars are in a pattern similar to that of a Confederate battle flag.
(d) The stars are six pointed, like the Star of David, not five pointed American stars.

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

13. Why do Resi's dog and Mrs. Noth have "fat" bellies?
(a) They are both wearing heavy sweaters with lots of padding to stay warm.
(b) They are both pregnant.
(c) They had stuffed themselves with all the food in the house before invading armies could steal it.
(d) They both suffer from a condition known as "dropsy" as a result of malnutrition.

14. What is the reason the magazine article states that the slave laborers hanged Werner Noth?
(a) As just desserts for all the hangings he had ordered as chief of police.
(b) Because the Russians ordered them to do it.
(c) For the satisfaction of hanging someone important.
(d) Because of the severe beating he gave the woman who dropped a vase.

15. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?
(a) Major Frank Wirtanen.
(b) Abraham Epstein's mother.
(c) Helga Noth.
(d) Rudolph Hoess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?

2. What is the surprise that Rev. Jones and his entourage present to the narrator?

3. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?

4. Why did Resi remove her mittens when she was sitting in the music room?

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

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